[quote]<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by WHBM:
I never realised this. Why on earth do they carry a gun ? If there's one place in the USA that the public you are dealing with are not going to be able to threaten you with weapons it's the arriving passengers from a plane flight !
One obvious danger is at the Customs checkpoint. At this point, you've retrieved your checked bags, and these can have all sorts of weapons in them legally, including guns.