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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 4:04 pm
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Originally Posted by SATTSO
We do find firearms not properly secured. The last one I found was a .45 rolled in news paper. The police went down to the gate, and got the man who's bag it was. But now imagine the situation I am describing where the bag is shipped to the wrong location, the lock is cut because the bag has to be re-screened - and there is no passenger there. The police will be given the gun.
In violation of federal law. The airline just transferred a gun that they had no legal ownership of to a third party.
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