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Suburban Warrior

(405 posts) Sun Aug 31, 2014, 12:00 PM Aug 2014

Try to board a flight in Port Columbus with a gun? No Problem!

Forgetful gun packers get a break

Who would try to bring a gun through airport security?

Only someone incredibly stupid, say the people who have been caught with weapons in their carry-on luggage at security checkpoints at Port Columbus.

“Hell, no,” a 70-year-old West Side man told airport police when they asked if he knew the unloaded handgun was in his bag in January 2013. “Not only no, but hell no. Only a dumb--- or a professional football player would do that.”

Since February, these forgetful gun carriers have gotten a break. Airport police are no longer criminally charging those who unknowingly pack a firearm in their carry-on luggage. In the seven months since then, eight people have been stopped, but none was charged.

Read More:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/08/31/forgetful-gunpackers-get-a-break.html

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Try to board a flight in Port Columbus with a gun? No Problem! (Original Post) Suburban Warrior Aug 2014 OP

How the hell do you forget that you have a firearm in your luggage? IronGate Aug 2014 #1

the same way onethatcares Aug 2014 #2

Can't disagree with you on that. nt. IronGate Aug 2014 #4

some people have guns everywhere how can be they expected to remember where they are? samsingh Aug 2014 #3

Except my dryer doesn't eat my firearms, IronGate Aug 2014 #5

But guns in dryers are almost as noisy as my socks. Eleanors38 Aug 2014 #6

true samsingh Aug 2014 #7

IronGate

(2,186 posts)

1. How the hell do you forget that you have a firearm in your luggage?

Reply to Suburban Warrior (Original post)

Sun Aug 31, 2014, 12:02 PM

Aug 2014

Ok, maybe a senior citizen might forget, but others?

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)

2. the same way

Reply to IronGate (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 31, 2014, 12:05 PM

Aug 2014

you forget the first rule of gun safety.

the same way

you didn't know the gun was loaded

the same way

you didn't think the kids could find it

I don't care what age, if you can't remember where you put your gun, it should be taken away from you.