Originally Posted by jkhuggins

Actually, that's almost the point I'm trying to make.

Nobody's going to "hand guns" to anyone. Any TSO who wants to be a federal LEO is going to have to demonstrate that they're capable of handling all that's entailed --- and that's going to eliminate a lot of the folks who can't seem to understand even the basics of how TSA is supposed to work. I would guess that 90% of TSOs wouldn't qualify to be LEOs. (Just a guess, mind you; I have absolutely no basis for that guess.)