Gun gets past TSA. A gun for Pete’s sake.
All of this blather about emptying our water bottles, taking off our shoes, submitting to full body scans, crotch pats, leaving behind our hand creams…it’s all just that. Blather. (ABC News link);
Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight.
He didn’t realize he had forgotten to remove the loaded snub nose “baby” Glock pistol from his computer bag. But TSA officers never noticed as his bag glided along the belt and was x-rayed. When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston.
“It’s just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun,” Seif told ABC News. “How can you miss it? You cannot miss it.”
You have to ask yourself how an Iranian-American can get a loaded .40 caliber Glock past TSA security. I think I know.
Thanks to Old Trooper and ROS for the link.
Category: Shitbags, Terror War
I didn’t read the article, but I wonder if the next story to be written on this little debacle is Farid Seif now being brought up on charges for illegally transporting a firearm on an airline.
Betcha if had been stuffed up his ass the TSA would have found it.
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Actually, Claymore, he reported it to the TSA and sat down with them to discuss it. I guess they were quite embarrassed about it. Not to mention that this isn’t the first, or last, time that guns and explosives have made it through TSA screening. If you read the article, it doesn’t paint a very warm fuzzy picture, yet the TSA says that their failure to find all this stuff is why the new groping and nekkid scans are necessary. Really? If they can’t find a gun with an x-ray; how the fuck can they justify nekkid scans to find stuff?
They can’t find a firearm when it’s the only thing in the bag and they expect to find anything smaller in even smaller, erm, containers??
They must have thought this was a harmless shoe tree or stapler or something.
http://www.glock.com/english/glock26.htm
But anyway, everybody feeling real good about flying right about now knowing that TSA is on the job?
Is it me or does she always look like she’s grunting out a big one?
Although it wouldn’t have worked in this case, we could learn from a low-tech Israeli method which in practice seems to be much more effective than all of our high-tech, high cost systems – look at their eyes. They’ve studied the neurology of lying, and they are tipped off that someone is being untruthful off by specific, subconscious eye movements, head tilts, tics, etc. – nonverbal signals that are almost impossible to hide. When they suspect a person is lying, they pull him aside for further scrutiny. Although I don’t fly much, I hear TSA screeners rarely look at peoples’ faces – too busy staring at screens or rifling thru bags…..
I’m pretty much a 2nd Amendment absolutist, but I don’t think I’d object to strenuously if the authorities decided to rescind the carry permit of a man who can’t be bothered to remember where he leaves his firearms. I mean, he says himself “this is not a small gun” – it weighs a pound and a half or so, and even when his supposedly empty laptop case significantly heavier than it should have been it didn’t dawn on him why that was so?
Well, the good news is that the chick with huge cans in the adjacent line was completely searched and x-ray’d, so we can all sleep safer tonight.
WHy, oh why? did he HAVE to tell the TSA?
Sheesh! Keepa you biga mouth SHUT!