The number of guns found by TSA officers last year was the highest annual total for the agency since it was created in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.
You have to think most of these guns were brought by accident and were pistols. Most people keep their pistols loaded because they have them to kill other people if necessary. An unloaded gun is less lethal. People who carry all the time seem to get careless after a while. Inb4 stories of people with pistols just for snakes or bears or whatever, that is definitely not the most common use case. I know someone who had a gun in his bag and they charged him like $500ish dollars to mail it back to himself and threatened him with fines up to $2000 but there were no additional fines levied.
You have to think most of these guns were brought by accident and were pistols.
While that is certainly true, it doesn’t make it much better. It means that a bunch of people are forgetting what they’ve done with their loaded firearms when they go to the airport. Seems to me that if you are a responsible gun owner, you’d damned well better know where your gun is at all times, especially if it’s loaded.
Yeah it depends on the gun too though. A long barrel pistol you could have the mechanical advantage but a little snub nose and you might as well just be holding a roll of quarters.
You have to think most of these guns were brought by accident and were pistols. Most people keep their pistols loaded because they have them to kill other people if necessary. An unloaded gun is less lethal. People who carry all the time seem to get careless after a while. Inb4 stories of people with pistols just for snakes or bears or whatever, that is definitely not the most common use case. I know someone who had a gun in his bag and they charged him like $500ish dollars to mail it back to himself and threatened him with fines up to $2000 but there were no additional fines levied.
While that is certainly true, it doesn’t make it much better. It means that a bunch of people are forgetting what they’ve done with their loaded firearms when they go to the airport. Seems to me that if you are a responsible gun owner, you’d damned well better know where your gun is at all times, especially if it’s loaded.
Well that’s most definitely quite normal… /S
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I’d upgrade it to crescent wrench lethality. Below hammer or screwdriver but above rock
Only slightly below hammer if you’re pistol whipping someone
Yeah it depends on the gun too though. A long barrel pistol you could have the mechanical advantage but a little snub nose and you might as well just be holding a roll of quarters.