But carry-on luggage still has to be x-ray'd, right? And with that, the f/a left the U.S. with a handgun in her carry-on luggage and said handgun was not detected* by the TSA and thus another big fail by our favorite group of Thousands Standing Around.

*assembled or dis-assembled, this is something that the "highly trained TSA professionals" are supposed to find and they missed it-plane and simple!