Originally Posted by exerda

OTOH, I have little confidence that the government (or private contractors spending taxpayer money, like Lockheed-Martin is to the tune of hundreds of millions on TSA ID's) coming up with a tenable ID solution even for such a limited-scope problem as ID'ing FAMs and other officials permitted to carry firearms aboard planes. Just seeing the results of the IC's attempts to come up with inter-agency ID badges that can be used at different facilities has convinced me there's little hope at this point.