fake guns and the airports

trooperchin

Report: One in four fake weapons get past screeners


ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) - Screeners at 32 of the largest airports in the United States failed to detect fake weapons in 24 percent of undercover tests by the Transportation Security Administration last month, USA Today reported.

Citing documents it obtained, the paper said the tests, the first since the agency started overseeing checkpoint screening in February, were done by agents who did little to try to conceal the items as they passed through checkpoints.

It said screeners at Cincinnati, Jacksonville and Las Vegas failed to detect fake weapons in at least half of the tests. At Los Angeles International Airport, there was a 41 percent failure rate, the paper said in Monday's editions.





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muley

My sister-in-law recently came to visit. She flew from Wichita to Phoenix, changed planes and flew to Sacramento with a curling iron in her carry on bag. The curling iron has an electrical cord long enough to choke two pilots and a flight attendant at the same time, but no one said a word when it went through the viewer. I guess they were watching out for box cutters and Medals of Honor.
muley

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Take my shoe laces, my harley belt and buckle, hell even my pants, I could strangle ya with one of the legs, not to mention my boots which are heavy enough to beat ya to death, and dont forget my T-shirt. or maybe yet cut off my hands, better to choke ya with.

lr

"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"

RancheroPaul

Couple of weeks ago, I decided not to fly again because of the "Propaganda" and BS they try to tell us about the "safety with flying" and the great way we are being protected. I will fly again when there is really some protection on than being shot down by an F-16!

Don't want this kind of protection, do you? Quit Flying and send them a letter saying you are and why! These folks are "playing games" and seeing if they can do it. They did 24 percent of the time! Then they brag about it! Anybody listening except the "dummies" who still believe the Government is protecting us? Nah, ....... Terrorists wouldn't listen to to this stuff......they would just walk on board with their weapons! What a joke! Airport Safety? Passenger Protection? Hehehehehehe!!! See why I quit flying?



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offeror

The air lines have been limping along as it is. They charge way too much for a service as old as air travel -- the average man can still better afford car or bus. Yet they continue to limp along with this old lumbering business model that can't take even the lightest hit or they go under. And the freight services don't seem to be that much better off than the passenger services. I can't figure out why the airlines can't make money at reasonable rates, and I can't figure out how they're going to survive continuing to do things the same way they've always done them. They badly need a think tank to revamp air travel for the 21st century.

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"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

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There's too many high paid POS do nothings on the payroll.