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Guns for pilots; in the cockpit
Topic Started: Jun 15 2012, 04:28 AM (153 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Article:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77449.html

Just curious ... is it a common practice, internationally, for commercial airline pilots to have guns in the cockpit?
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Frank_W
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The TSA needs to be dismantled.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Copper
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Frank_W
Jun 15 2012, 05:03 AM
The TSA needs to be dismantled.

Yes.

A friend of mine flies a regional jet for a commuter airline. His fingernail clipper was confiscated by TSA one day on the way to work. He explained that he was the guy TSA was protecting and also that he has a very sharp rescue axe in the cockpit. It didn't matter he lost the clipper.

I believe this rule has been changed and pilots are now allowed to carry items like this.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Axtremus
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A long time ago, probably before 9/11 and all that TSA hoopla, an airport security screener found a nail clipper in my carry-on luggage, proceeded to remove said nail clipper, slide out the folding nail file attached to the nail clipper, snapped off said nail file, threw said nail file into some trash receptacle, and gave the nail clipper back to me. All done very professionally.
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Frank_W
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Prior to 9/11, I routinely flew with a pocketknife. :shrug:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Frank_W
Jun 15 2012, 06:29 AM
Prior to 9/11, I routinely flew with a pocketknife. :shrug:
I flew with scissors.

Now I just run with them.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
~A.A. Milne
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Frank_W
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You'll poke yer eye out, kid!
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
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Axtremus
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Or risk accidental castration.
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