Can't fix stupid.

[Hawaiian]

What is wrong with these people? How do you not remember you have a firearm in your carry on? Dumber than Dirt IMHO.

TSA seizes record 81 guns in a week at US airport checkpoints - Business Traveller – The leading magazine for frequent flyers

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[Member 5605]

Please note the alternate text for the image:

"Xray scan detects weapon in criminals briefcase"



Innocent until proven guilty? The assumption that everyone carrying a gun is a criminal....

That's where the real shame is, but eh... it's news media so what's else is expected?

 

[Switchblade666]

A pocketknife I kinda get, almost done it, but a gun just screams extremely STUPID!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Just think how many invisible Glocks get on board planes!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

In the picture posted in #2 ... the revolver is stowed in the bag at full cock....
And yes the caption wording is disturbing .... With the assumption that everyone who has a gun is a criminal.
Andy

 

[Brutus57]

My wife on her last trip found a pair of small pliers in her checked baggage. Didn't match any of ours. Had black electrical tape on handles. I figure a crooked TSA person used it to open small locks and hard to open zippers.
She has had to lose a couple of nice folders when using my bags.
Brutus Out

 

[Mistman]

Believe it or not some people travel so much, driving somewhere one day, on a plane the next, along w/a stressful schedule and a small window between trips I can see it happening.

I used to think that too. Man, you gotta be a special kind of stupid to 'forget' about a firearm in a bag. Not so sure I'd jump right into that statement anymore. When you're a daily carrier and you have a lot going on I can understand an honest 'oh cr*p!' moment. I bet it's a hard lesson for some of them.

 

[Certaindeaf]

You think that's bad, some guy forgot he had a bomb in his pants!.. his pants!

 

[Stomper]

"You can't fix stupid"


Well sometimes you CAN fix stupid... I've got a HEAVILY booted foot and I'm not afraid to break it off in stupid's a$$!

 

[orygun]

In the picture posted in #2 ... the revolver is stowed in the bag at full cock....

The whole thing looks photoshopped to me. There wouldn't be the surface detail on the gun and you sure as Hell wouldn't see images thru any part of the gun, like you can thru the cylinder here.

It's all BS.

 

[11Charlie]

I'm kinda worried that you guys are just figuring out that you cant fix STUPID


I'm with @Stomper size 14 steel toe and a roll of duct tape does pretty good

 

[308]

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I like how the Photoshop Moron pasted the cartridge in the cylinder pointing the wrong direction. But then again...maybe I'm seeing something else

 

[Medic!]

Cylinder flute.

 

[mjbskwim]

Believe it or not some people travel so much, driving somewhere one day, on a plane the next, along w/a stressful schedule and a small window between trips I can see it happening.

I used to think that too. Man, you gotta be a special kind of stupid to 'forget' about a firearm in a bag. Not so sure I'd jump right into that statement anymore. When you're a daily carrier and you have a lot going on I can understand an honest 'oh cr*p!' moment. I bet it's a hard lesson for some of them.

So why would you bring a gun with you and leave it in your carry on all the time? Or you take it to meetings ?
You should still be aware of your firearm or maybe you (not you personally) should think of an alternative?

 

[Mistman]

Yeah, personally I don't know. But I can just see someone getting all rattled and stressed out and having a 'lapse'. I would still consider it pretty stupid. I've done some pretty stupid things in the past and have been stunned by my own stupidity once or twice. I don't consider myself a 'stupid' guy, I'm sure none of us do.

Really, not trying to defend anyone for doing it. The thought just happened to cross my mind as I read the post.

 

[Switchblade666]

I like how the Photoshop Moron pasted the cartridge in the cylinder pointing the wrong direction. But then again...maybe I'm seeing something else

Photoshop is easy to monkey around with..

 

[Certaindeaf]

The bad part is, the TSA only found 1% of the guns actually carried onto airlines. probably

 

[P7M13]

Totally photo shopped BS. The criminal here is the perp who did the photoshop.
Invert colors, phase shift the RGB histogram until the gun handle is almost black, and this is what you get:


As if you're going to see the gun manfuacturer's registration mark on the gun. Yep.

I travel a lot. I carry all kinds of tools and electronics with me. I've inadvertently carried my EDC to TSA and gotten it through 5-6 times, and three other times they've found it and I've mailed home my EDC once, my Leatherman once, and let them keep the cheap Leatherman copy that was not worth the mailing.
One guy right behind me had a full magazine of 9mm in his backpack. They relieved him of the cartridges and let him mail the magazine to his home.

 

[scott_see]

Innocent until proven guilty? The assumption that everyone carrying a gun is a criminal....

That's where the real shame is, but eh... it's news media so what's else is expected?

Once you enter the restricted area of an airport with a gun, you are a criminal.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Once you enter the restricted area of an airport with a gun, you are a criminal.

Kinda like when a tree falls in a forest?