I just mean that people need to be paranoid when getting near an airport in general. Having even locked-up guns anywhere near an airport is a very bad idea.
I’m not allowed to protect myself when I go pick someone up at the airport that is about 40 miles from my house and in a bad part of the city?
What are you talking about? You can walk into an airport plane ticket in hand, with a gun in your suitcase and tell the lady at the counter “I have a firearm to declare.” They will open your checked baggage to ensure the weapon is unloaded and in a locked container. You will sign an affacavit stating such. When you get off the plane, the gun is still in your suitcase available at the baggage return.
If the passengers of the 9/11 aircraft had guns, the Twin Towers would still be standing.
Los Angeles is a VERY crowded place. There are probably people LIVING closer to the airport than this man was when he was stopped.
My family spent a few hours at an In-n-Out Burger place which is immediately under the landing approach for LAX. It is fun to see the planes up close. Anybody with a firearm in Kalifornia could visit the same place without any expectation of being checked for any reason whatever.
Are you one of those people who think we have a "weapons" problem instead of a "criminal" and "terrorist" problem? Americans need to be encouraged to have weapons wherever illegal immigrant terrorists are able to have them.
Oh please, you can walk right up to the baggage check counter with unloaded and cased firearms, check them with your baggage, and then pick them up at baggage claim at the other end of your flight.
The only special handling they get is a hand inspection, since the nitrate sniffers are quite likely to go off on a gun case, wether there is currently a gun in them or not. Residue you know.
Christmas after 9-11(I think, might have been 2002), I put our nephew on a flight in Omaha, headed for the left coast to visit his folks, he also transported two scoped bolt action "sniper rifles", which his Dad has left with his Grandparents, in a double rifle case. No problem, very little extra bother. We watched 'em like hawks as they inspected that case though. (He transported the bolts in his checked bag, but that wasn't really necessary).