Originally Posted by
sbrower
1. It is a crime to impersonate a Federal Law Enforcement Officer.
2. TSA screening employees are not LEO's.
3. TSA screening employees are now being issued badges which I believe are *intended* to make them look official.
Is that a violation of the law?
Can I issue brass badges, perhaps with an Eagle and a star, which says "United States Citizen"?
Yup, you sure can - there are ALL kinds of official-looking metal badges out there (there is, or was, a company which advertises "CCW Permittee" badges in the back of NRA magazines, which I think is a REALLY bad idea personally). The only crime is when one of them is used in an illegal manner, such as to impersonate a law-enforcement official.