How will TSA respond to FLL baggage claim shooting?
Jan 6, 2017, 11:43 am
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How will TSA respond to FLL baggage claim shooting?
Sadly, today there has been some shootings by a gunman at the FLL baggage claim area, and reportedly there are multiple victims, some killed and others wounded. Fortunately, the gunman has since been stopped and is in custody according to some reports.
https://news.google.com/news/amp?cau...tml#pt0-920983
What kind of thing should we expect from the TSA for this?
https://news.google.com/news/amp?cau...tml#pt0-920983
What kind of thing should we expect from the TSA for this?
Jan 6, 2017, 12:34 pm
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There will be the almost inevitable calls for all access to airport property be security-controlled. Remote drop off lots with shuttles. Ticketed passengers only allowed onto the airport terminal concourse.
Allow 4 hours for any flight no matter how long. Which is why the proposals will be made. The airlines will make it rain in the halls of Congress to defeat this.
Allow 4 hours for any flight no matter how long. Which is why the proposals will be made. The airlines will make it rain in the halls of Congress to defeat this.
Jan 6, 2017, 1:32 pm
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News reports say the shooter was a passenger on an arriving Air Canada flight, and the gun was retrieved from his checked bag on arrival.
If that's true, then restricting access to the terminal wouldn't have stopped this incident - not that TSA would actually think of that.
If that's true, then restricting access to the terminal wouldn't have stopped this incident - not that TSA would actually think of that.
Jan 6, 2017, 1:50 pm
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I would not be surprised if TSA will put an end to the ability to check a handgun in luggage. That will likely be the end of that.
Honestly, I am surprised that we can still do this. We can't bring a water bottle on the plane, but we can check a handgun? Yeah, pretty strange.
Honestly, I am surprised that we can still do this. We can't bring a water bottle on the plane, but we can check a handgun? Yeah, pretty strange.
Jan 6, 2017, 1:57 pm
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With some absurd policies for sure. How is this any different from a shooting at Walmart or a movie theater? It is a public unsecured area. So what if he had the handgun in his checked bag? Would it have been better if he walked into baggage claim from the parking lot at his originating airport and did the shooting? Same end result.
Jan 6, 2017, 3:00 pm
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Jan 6, 2017, 3:13 pm
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I would not be surprised if TSA will put an end to the ability to check a handgun in luggage. That will likely be the end of that.
Honestly, I am surprised that we can still do this. We can't bring a water bottle on the plane, but we can check a handgun? Yeah, pretty strange.
Honestly, I am surprised that we can still do this. We can't bring a water bottle on the plane, but we can check a handgun? Yeah, pretty strange.
Jan 6, 2017, 3:39 pm
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News reports say the shooter was a passenger on an arriving Air Canada flight, and the gun was retrieved from his checked bag on arrival.
If that's true, then restricting access to the terminal wouldn't have stopped this incident - not that TSA would actually think of that.
If that's true, then restricting access to the terminal wouldn't have stopped this incident - not that TSA would actually think of that.
At what point after you land and pick up your bags do you stop being a passemger?
Jan 6, 2017, 3:51 pm
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I would not be surprised if TSA will put an end to the ability to check a handgun in luggage. That will likely be the end of that.
Honestly, I am surprised that we can still do this. We can't bring a water bottle on the plane, but we can check a handgun? Yeah, pretty strange.
Honestly, I am surprised that we can still do this. We can't bring a water bottle on the plane, but we can check a handgun? Yeah, pretty strange.
Also agreed.
Jan 6, 2017, 4:33 pm
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Maybe TSA will require all luggage containing firearms to be checked to the destination baggage office, where unclaimed and oversized bags are currently sent, so that some verification (not just ID, but e.g. whether the passenger is sober) can be performed before pickup.