Airports should be like Washington DC. Or at least, since Airports are part of the interstate transportation system, the federal government should be able to make common federal law for them.
After all, the TSA is federal. A city can’t tell the airport not to screen passengers.
What I find fascinating is that this is clearly a focus of NYCity. They aren’t looking for guns coming in, they are looking for them leaving, when they can arrest the people for staying in their city with them.
If they were really just trying to keep guns out, they would inspect on arrival, and tell the people that they weren’t allowed to stay in NYC with the gun.
This would be like having a wild west tavern in the old days, but instead of checking the guns at the door, you let poeple bring them in, and then checked when they left, and arrested them if you found they had been in the tavern with a gun.
Then I guess the answer is to use Newark. At least on the outbound flight. That is, if you actually have some really compelling reason to visit Moscow on the Hudson. If not, just stick to the free states. Can’t believe I actually said New Jersey was the solution to something.