The insane procedures required by the TSA demands that our pilots to lock and then un-lock their .40 side arms was and is a solid recipe for disaster. Did the TSA deliberately create this bizarre and unconventional Rube Goldberg firearm retention system hoping for this result? The sordid history of the FAA and TSA’s total resistance to the concept of arming pilots to protect Americans is in itself a scandal.Looks like there's more to this story. It's time to find out who was responsible for initially proposing and then ramming this requirement through--as well as his qualifications and credentials that made others think it was a good idea.
Putting a gun into a holster and then threading a padlock through the trigger and trigger-guard is required every time the pilots enter or leave the cockpit.
That has got to be one of the stupidest requirements I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteOnly a person completely ignorant of firearms and shooting, and deathly afraid of them, could come up with such an idiotic policy.
Sounds like a terrorist-friendly rule, implemented by terrorist-friendly anti-gun extremists.
ReplyDeleteSo why didn't they just use a lockbox?
ReplyDeleteDid these morons actually require a trigger lock on a loaded firearm?
The person who implemented this policy either:
ReplyDelete1 ) Wanted an ND as an excuse to end the program.
2 ) Is a fucking moron.
Either is a good reason to fire this person.
What a spectacularly stupid idea.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they should require Air Marshals to have locks on their guns, too?
Because, you know, a passenger might get access to it?
Kristopher,
ReplyDeleteYou for got one:
3) All of the above.
I think there's a lot more to it than the story would allow.
ReplyDeleteI'm personally suspecting that he had removed the gun from the holster in order to effect that ND.
The holster allows the lock to be inserted/removed with the pistol still in place. (Not that it's that smart, but it wasn't that outstanding dumb, either. Unlike a couple of other things about the FDO and FDO weapon...)