Posted on 01/14/2010 5:24:03 AM PST by Rennes Templar
The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that screeners at Gallatin Field near Bozeman inadvertently allowed a passenger with a firearm in his carryon luggage through security last month.
The unidentified man realized he had the gun when he was in the boarding area Dec. 13 and turned himself into TSA officials. Gallatin Field Board Chairman Dick Roehm said the TSA re-screened every passenger at the airport, including those on a Horizon Air flight that had left the gate but had not yet taken off - delaying three flights for more than an hour.
The gun was turned over to local law enforcement and the passenger was allowed to continue on the flight, TSA spokesman Dwayne Baird said in a written statement.
Roehm said the incident is raising the prospect of turning to a private company to handle security at the airport.
"If those guys can't detect a handgun, which is pretty basic, not some exotic explosive sewn to your underpants, then we get upset," he said, referring to the botched attempt by a 23-year-old Nigerian man who allegedly tried to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.
Several other Montana airports, including those in Butte, Missoula and Kalispell, are looking into hiring private firms to handle security instead of the TSA. Airport officials cite inefficiencies that come with working with a government bureaucracy.
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Spot on. Fire them all. Get some real screeners. TSA agents are not only inefficient, they're creepy.
He is lucky he was not in Atlanta. Similar thing happened to a young bride headed off on her honeymoon. She had borrowed Mom's suitcase which had a .22 handgun in it. The bride discovered it, informed the police and spent her wedding night in the Atlanta jail.
"You can't professionalize unless you federalize." Tom Daschle.............
Do you know what it takes to fire a federal employee? We have a saying here at work about a piece of irreparably broken equipment: “It’s like a government employee. I can’t get rid of it and I can’t make it work.”..............
Does it make sense to turn yourself in after you are past security or continue as if nothing had happened?
They normally arrest in cases such as this. (No good deed goes unpunished).
TSA--what a bunch of screw ups. But what can one expect from a government monopoly?
“The unidentified man realized he had the gun when he was in the boarding area Dec. 13 and turned himself into TSA officials.”
The system worked again! ;-)
Simply continue on: given that you got past the screen, you just might need to use it.
The TSA is simply BS.
“Does it make sense to turn yourself in after you are past security or continue as if nothing had happened?”
Chances are there were more weapons onboard the plane than
at a gun show already! ;-)
“I can’t get rid of it and I can’t make it work.”..............
Sounds like my teen age daughter. But seriously, Montanans don’t take kindly to inefficient feds.
...inefficient feds....That’s redundant again...........
You can say that again!
I think the general attitude by authorities about gun ownership in Montana vs Atlanta might have a lot to do with the different outcomes.
Wait a minute. Aren’t these the Fedral Unionized Screeners that were our only hope of stopping another 911? The only ones with the necessary stuff to get the job done?
Federal Unionized Body- and Underpants-Reconnoiterers - (FUBAR).
Yeah ok, but, uh, we knew he had the gun, and we were going to question him when he landed...
I'm assuming that you've also heard about the sh**storm that we've got going in Billings over the latest Max-Baucus-Graft-Honeypot (aka Federal Courthouse)
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"The stalemate over construction of a new federal courthouse in downtown Billings may not be resolved until April.
Michael Golden, an attorney with the General Accountability Office in Washington, D.C., said the agency has 100 days, or until April 21, to resolve a protest filed Monday by one of the unsuccessful bidders on the courthouse project.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_46694482-007b-11df-9204-001cc4c03286.html"
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Between the GSA and now the TSA, we've got more fun than thirty seconds after the firecrackers went off in the henhouse. Feathers, cackling and chickencrap all over everything.
Hey buddy, is that a bomb in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
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