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>Don't lash out at people you clearly don't understand. You're the one who doesn't understand. The article says 83% of the guns found by TSA were loaded. So
by nommm-nommm 11y ago
>Don't lash out at people you clearly don't understand.
You're the one who doesn't understand.
The article says 83% of the guns found by TSA were loaded.
So perhaps we can concluded that the kind of person to absent-mindedly carry a gun in their carry on are the kind of people who also don't handle guns safely?
- douche 11y agoIt's pretty stupid to carry an unloaded personal defense gun. You might as well just carry a brick at that point.
- nommm-nommm 11y agoI know very little about gun safety (don't own them) so I claim ignorance in the topic. I was addressing the GP who said "you don't understand people don't transport loaded guns in their bag" when the article specifically said "83% of guns found in carry on bags were loaded." Which means people are clearly doing it. I don't know the specifics of the safety of such a practice but I took GPs word on the topic that said practice was unsafe (or inadvisable).
- hga 11y agoA properly manufactured and maintained gun of "modern design" (which includes, for example, the 1911 as in that was the year the US Army adopted it), if its control surfaces (safety, trigger) are secured by a proper holster or the like, is pretty much not going to fire as long as you keep it away from a fire or a MRI's very strong magnet. Still, if your loaded gun is being discovered by the TSA in this fashion, you're violating Rule 2 of gun safety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper#Firearms_safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper#Firearms_safety) and of course you might not know until it's too late that your gun has a manufacturing flaw, you screwed up maintaining it, and there are no doubt many old guns out there with marginal designs.