Gun falls out of bag at Los Angeles Int'l Airport

[WRongKind1]

Gun falls out of bag at Los Angeles Int'l Airport

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A loaded handgun fell out of a checked bag being loaded onto an airliner at Los Angeles International Airport.

It's legal to carry an unloaded firearm in checked luggage on flights as long as passengers notify the airline.

The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/oPiE38 ) says Alaska Airlines wasn't notified about the .38-caliber handgun that tumbled out of a duffel bag being loaded onto a Portland-bound flight on Sunday morning. The gun owner, whose name hasn't been released, was questioned by police and was allowed to board a later flight for Oregon.

Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Lorie Dankers says the bag passed screening for explosives.

She says the TSA screens for firearms in carry-on luggage but adds it's not the agency's responsibility to detect firearms in checked luggage.

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Racism @ it's best. You know he wasn't black.

Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com

 

[cthomas0964]

Not a big deal except being loaded.

 

[Dark19]

If They Aren't Releasing the Name and Let Them Board Maybe it Was the Undercover Air Marshall

 

[illdog]

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1666.shtm

 

[NorthSide314]

If They Aren't Releasing the Name and Let Them Board Maybe it Was the Undercover Air Marshall

If it was and undercover marshall he would have gotten on plane with it cause it waould have been loaded with rubber bullets. He just didn't notify but it should have been in a locked box.

 

[Sango]

Soooo, the panic was about box cutters on 9/11??

How difficult is it to sneak a clip