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EEllis wrote:Can we all agree that taking, or attempting to take, a firearm thru security or checking baggage containing firearms without proper declarations is illegal currently? Then what she did was illegal. Now she most likely has reasons and explanations but I don't see that letting her tell it to the court rather than having the airport cop make the call as inherently evil.

Yeah, it's illegal. But cops make decisions like that all the time, based on their boots on the ground judgement. Easy example: it's illegal to exceed the speed limit. The cop can give you a ticket, but many will issue a warning, depending on their appraisal of the individual they have pulled over. In California, it is illegal to be carrying a loaded gun in the car, not secured in a locked container, but lots of people (I did it when I lived there) will keep a gun under the front seat for "just in case." I've had more than one California LEO tell me when I asked them what they would do if they found a concealed gun in the car of someone like me, and I was told "I'd not only let you go, I'd probably put the gun back where I found it." Granted, carrying a firearm past TSA security is a much more significant offense than a traffic ticket, but it is not any worse than getting caught with an illegally concealed firearm in California. One can still exercise good judgement..........Lord knows they show poor judgement all the time when they frisk 6 year old paralytic girls.

And by the way, I'm not suggesting that Ms Nugent should have been either ignored, or allowed to proceed with the gun onto the airplane. But I AM suggesting that when they run her record and find that she doesn't have one, that she does possess a CHL which would explain how a gun might be forgotten in a carry on bag, they might well have A) escorted her back to her car and locked it up, or B) confiscated the gun and sent her on her way; or some other variation of that.

But if it makes you happier to see her in court, I guess you're going to be happy then.

jimlongley wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

philip964 wrote:Why was she arrested. I thought they were just releasing people for this. Or is that just Houston. They can't prove intent.

It's because it happened in (democrat-dominated) Houston, she's Uncle Ted's wife......and he's {{{GASP!!!}}} a voice of the {{{SHUDDER}}} eeeevil NRA........whose name shall not be spoken.

Pure politics. If she had been the husband of Annise Parker, all of this would have been quietly swept under the rug.

When did they move DFW airport to Houston?

This, though, is one of those examples of "off the body carry" being less than optimal. Too easy to forget the gun is there, and if you forget it's there while going through airport security, what chance is there that you will forget it's there under other circumstances?

OTOH, when I was with TSA I made it through DFW checkpoints 7 times out of 10 tries with a .380 handgun in my carry on.

I didn't realize that it was at DFW. I saw the OP's question—"Or is that just Houston"—and assumed that it was Houston. Even so, my answer still applies, except make it "if she were the wife of Mike Rawlings (democrat mayor of Dallas)"......

philip964 wrote:Why was she arrested. I thought they were just releasing people for this. Or is that just Houston. They can't prove intent.

It's because it happened in (democrat-dominated) Houston, she's Uncle Ted's wife......and he's {{{GASP!!!}}} a voice of the {{{SHUDDER}}} eeeevil NRA........whose name shall not be spoken.

Pure politics. If she had been the husband of Annise Parker, all of this would have been quietly swept under the rug.