This story is one that might happen to any of us.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A 59-year-old Ohio man was charged Monday with attempting to bring a gun and a knife on board a plane at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
Richard Buxman, of Poland, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon when airport security at 8 a.m. Monday spotted a 9 mm Walther handgun with laser sights and a knife in a carry-on computer case.
His wife, Jocelyn, told police she packed the computer case and forgot the weapons were inside.
If the story is correct it sounds like maybe those are just some go-to tools he keeps in his computer bag. Since it isn’t the wife’s bag she might not think of it, and he didn’t pack it so…
Back when I used to commute by train I’d carry all my necessities in a backpack. I once thought “Why not carry a few extra reloads in the bag just-in-case”. Not a terrible idea really, except for one thing. I didn’t want to unpack those reloads every day and load them back up, and was concerned that a magazine or speed strip might get left in the bag if I ever took it as a carry-on.
As a general rule if you have a bag that you keep guns or ammo in make sure they’re dedicated bags for commuting or range use, and NEVER will be used for travel through security theaters. If you ever DO use one of these bags for travel turn it inside out first before you pack it just to make sure a single shell, or spent case, or pocket knife didn’t hide itself in the bag. Its a pointless effort, but it could keep you out of jail.
As a general rule
if you have a bag that you keep guns or ammo in make sure they’re dedicated bags for commuting or range use, andNEVERwill be used fortravel through security theaters. There I fixed it.More practically, however, yes, very much I agree with you. In college I used the same backpack for “work and play” as it were, and had a fun time remembering to empty out all the toys when I came back from the weekend before going back in to the loving embrace of the safe safe gun free zone. I don’t think I ever brought anything to school that should’ve legally stayed home, but there were a couple times that I found something a little later that made me re-check everything…
I wish I could do that, and as I said when we were planning our vacation in Virginia I suggested we drive rather than fly. But we’re looking at a 12-15hr drive which is really starting to get to the upper limits for a drive for a week’s vacation. When the wife and I go to Florida or NC it really is a royal pain to drive when flights are so quick.
The shame is how much the government gets involved in our rights to travel. Its not like Jet Blue has a policy about me getting my nuts cupped, or there can be “Fuck Yeah America Airlines” where they let me bring my guns, and my own 6-pack on my carry-on for us to make judgement calls on what’s reasonable and what isn’t.
there can be “Fuck Yeah America Airlines”
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
How can we make that happen?!
Unfortunately first we must overthrow the US government….there might be tri-cornered hats involved…
“As a general rule if you have a bag that you keep guns or ammo in make sure they’re dedicated bags for commuting or range use, and NEVER will be used for travel through security theaters. There I fixed it.”
Exactly. We drive or we don’t go. Emergencies aren’t exceptions. We change vacation plans if trips with figured with drives don’t work.
I think we’ve reverted to family travel as it was before cheap public air travel. Cross country driving trips used to be an ordeal. Back then you dealt or didn’t go. That’s exactly where we are.
Choices. That’s it.
The sad state of affairs in this country means that I drive myself. Flights are expensive, the experience is unpleasant, and getting a gun through the system takes more paperwork and red tape than I can tolerate. Flying for me is an emergency action only.
Heck, I was worried about going to the range wearing the jacket and carrying the bag I was planning on taking on a trip to Europe. Turned out to be no issue, of course.
Joe Huffman sent a bag through the TSA sniffer that had been used to transport some of his explosives, no issue.
I’ve flown very little; and after that bastard Pistole announced “I think flying is a privilege” I decided not to again unless there were no other choice.
We just got back from our trip to the House of Mouse, and yes, we flew – no real option without burning several additional days of vacation time to accomodate the driving. Not to mention that fuel from here to there and back would have been right on par with the cost of airfare.
I took (as always) my Maxpedition murse, and yes, I tore it apart before we headed out. I left the universal holster and mag pouch in, but everything else came out. Found a round of 9mm and a couple loose .22s waaaaaay in the bottom. Plus the usual assortment of detritus that I normally carry but is verboten in those sterile areas.
Yeah you live in the Northern US and want to vacation in Disney, or some other subtropical US location, flying is the only way to go, unless you want to burn four solid days on the road driving to and from, if you’re spending a week then you get 3 actual days of fun. That makes sense…
This needs to be real:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/if-awesome-lunatics-ran-airlines/
Air Travel would be awesome again.
If you don’t have your own gun to bring with you, you can borrow one at the gate. Hell yeah.