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What kind of dipshit doesn't know you can't carry a gun on airlines?
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~5,700 — the number of guns the Transportation Security Administration recovered at airports this year. The agency says it’s an all-time record. [ABC News]
~5,700 — the number of guns the Transportation Security Administration recovered at airports this year. The agency says it’s an all-time record. [ABC News]
Answer: The average gunner.
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What kind of dipshit doesn't know you can't carry a gun on airlines? (Original Post)
AndyS
Dec 2021
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bearsfootball516
(6,549 posts)1. What ends up happening to those guns anyway?
Are they just disposed of?
AndyS
(14,559 posts)2. I suspect a lot of them are returned to the owner. Gunz is special.
The TSA turns over all confiscated weapons to local law enforcement, passengers found to be flouting the rules can be fined or face civil penalties.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-confiscated-record-number-guns-airports-2021/story

Diamond_Dog
(35,964 posts)3. Every one of them
Thinks he or she will be the special one who gets away with it.
sanatanadharma
(4,074 posts)4. People do not carry guns...
...guns carry people.
People do not own guns, people are owned by guns.
Insentient guns do not protect people, sentient people pass laws to protect guns.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,813 posts)5. There should be a jail right there at the airport where you
get 5 years, and have to rely on table scraps from the food court to eat.
twodogsbarking
(12,753 posts)6. I forgot to take my ball cap off once.
Won't do that again.