Boy the TSA does a good job!
Two passengers were found with ammunition in their luggage at Logan Airport Saturday, Massachusetts State Police said.
In the first incident, a TSA screener found a pistol magazine at a Jet Blue security checkpoint while X-raying a passenger’s luggage.
The passenger, a 55 year-old man from Connecticut, told police he had forgotten that he had the magazine in an obscure compartment in his luggage. The man, who has a firearms license, was cited for unlawful possession of ammunition and allowed to continue on his flight.
A second passenger was found to have a shotgun shell in his baggage at a Southwest Airlines security checkpoint. Troopers found that the shell was empty and allowed the passenger to continue on his flight.
No charges were filed in the second incident.
Seriously, he had forgotten an old magazine in his bag, and another guy had a SPENT shotgun hull! Boy that’s some dangerous shit right there! Just think somebody could have…umm…well maybe somebody could have swallowed the shotgun hull and choked!
Maybe somebody could have popped a few rounds out of the magazine into the aisle and somebody could have slipped on them.
Boy I’m glad we pay BILLIONS on NOTHING!
Sadly they do consider this a success.
Why is it that the TSA routinely says it can’t comment on its “successes” for the sake of preserving national security, but anytime an item makes it into the news about one of their successful encounters, it’s the same weak tea that’s described above? How does this organization survive a simple cost-benefit analysis?
I once had to chuck almost a box worth of .25ACP that I had forgot was in my bag. That made me a little sad.
This would be why I’m always terrified to fly. A single .22 LR casing stuck in the tread of your shoe can send these morons into fits.