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Old Apr 16, 2009 | 2:15 pm
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Originally Posted by TSORon
Your right, FDS's dont, but local airport authorities do, local and state legislatures do, and other municipalities do. Thats why I said National. There may be other agencies or authorities that could prohibit the electronics.

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Please tell me what airport authority, or local or state legislature, has forbidden possession of any kind of otherwise legal radio. This is a First Amendment issue, as well as a federal preemption issue. For that matter, since when is it within TSA's brief to enforce municipal and state laws? TSA has only federal, and not state or local, jurisdiction.

Seems like just another instance of TSA abuse of constitutional rights in the name of non-existent security.

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