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Woman tries to board plane with 357 mag.

4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
What I found particularly interesting is that the reporter on the news said it was a semi automatic. Was she packing a Desert Eagle? I bet it was a revolver,not an autoloader. Wish these * munchers would get their stories strait.

When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How in heck did she expect to get through? When I traveled by air across the country in July, I got frisked (not just wanded) 4 times, and that doesn't count going through the metal detectors and having my carry-on x-rayed.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was she a blond? Just kiddin. She must have been living in a cave for the last year.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    .357Sig?

    Why does man kill? He kills for food. But not only for food; frequently, he must have a beverage.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never expect a reporter to get anything right when it comes to firearms. They don't care, they don't think it matters, and they'll say whatever makes it sound most dramatic. If you are in journalism, you are in the cliche and the pun business when writing your headlines. This is not exactly a high-intellect level of news reporting.

    My local television stations are particularly lame. A story about a revolver shooting will have a semi-auto graphic over the woman's head, and if it's about a semi-auto shooting chances are it will be a picture of a revolver. And I wish I had a nickel for every time the copywriting began "Shots rang out tonight...." Why do shots always seem to "ring out?" Reminds me of Snoopy sitting on his doghouse with a typewriter, typing, "It was a dark and stormy night..." Yes, the cliches are that bad.

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  • OPERATOROPERATOR Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    BEHOLD!!

    ...Another idiot comes out from the midst.

    Sometimes it makes me wonder what it would ultimately take for these people to learn that there are some things that a person cannot just do.

    -Operator

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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,690 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    She DID make it through. She flew out of Hartsfield with that magnum in a carry on bag and was in the midst of making a connecting flight out of Philadelphia when she got busted.

    "Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
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  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was this the thing that happened in Philadelphia? A friend of mine was there and he said the had everyone there except for the SWAT TEAM. How did she get it to philly any way she is from Atlanta.

    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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  • BoomerangBoomerang Member Posts: 4,513
    edited November -1
    To day it was reported that the .357 Mag is one of the most powerful handguns on the planet. Oh well, maybe in 1936. What a bunch of agenda driven idiots.

    Boomer

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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You can't say enough bad things about news reporting to suit me. Anything that will sell. As one reporter once said, "We don't report the news, we make the news better". Anyway, recently our local news channel was reporting a STABBING and over the blonde newspersons head was a picture of a revolver. Make sense? Not to people who have half a brain, but to a lot of people, they will thereafter associate the revolver with ANY crime and will vote to have them all confiscated.
    muley

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  • Rob GreeneRob Greene Member Posts: 102 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A few thoughts on this subject...I'm a Radio News Anchor and I like to think that I know a little bit about firearms, too, since I love to shoot, own and read about them. Every so often I'll get a story to read where they talk about an "assault weapon". I look at the story carefuly and end up changing it to "assault *style* weapon". When it comes to firearms, most of the liberal press doesn't know or care about the details. I'm especially curious about those "semi-automatic revolvers". While, I suppose, technically a revolver is semi-automatic, it's mixing your metaphors, isn't it?? I always wonder why I'm not seeing more stories about how firearms have discouraged crime. I'm sure it's not because there is any bias against firearms...

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  • Rob GreeneRob Greene Member Posts: 102 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    By the way, I was talking with a friend over the weekend. She said that she went to Florida a while back and when she got there, she was looking for something in her purse and found a box cutter. She uses one at her job and for some reason or other she had placed it in her purse without thinking. She said she ditched it in Florida and never said anything about it. I saw in my show prep material today that many of the Federal Security Screeners have 15 minutes or less of training on how to detect a bomb in carry-on luggage. They are required to have at least 1 hour of training, but have been given "abbreviated courses" in order to fill the jobs. Kinda makes you feel nervous about flying, doesn't it?


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