Not the point -- if he was trying to board the plane, then he had already gone through security who had failed to catch him. Besides, I can think of a lot of thing a person with bad intentions could do with a weapon after passing security without ever getting on a plane.jimlongley wrote:Why else would he be going through security?woodsong wrote:Anyone else feel that the original headline ("Trying to Board Plane with Gun") was misleading? It suggests that the person had already passed through the security check and was trying to board the plane.
That didn't happen (which is what the headline implies). Security did catch the fellow when they were supposed to (I'm not a big fan of TSA, but they did their job this time).
Sticky point is that it's not against the law to have a weapon at a security checkpoint -- it's against the law to "intentionally" have a weapon at a security checkpoint. The common "I didn't realize it was there" is a valid defense usually -- in this case, they're trying to use some recent receipts to disprove this. I don't think that will work -- if you can forget there's a gun in your case, you can also forget that you purchased (whatever -- ammo, perhaps? Story didn't say.) and forgot it was in the case as well.