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Old Jun 28, 2010 | 12:47 pm
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Originally Posted by SATTSO
This isn't new. Bring a gun into the checkpoint, for example, you are arrested by local LEOs and charged in a state/city court.

And if TSA imposes a fine, that is administrative. If your charged for attempting to circumvent airport securty by artful concealment, that is criminal and goes to the local DA.
um yeah, apparently that's not always the case. Ala Alvin Crabtree. He willfully did it, others not so much, any lawyer worth there salt would use the crabtree incident to have there clients charges dismissed based on grounds of overzealous prosecution.
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