Passenger carries firearm through TSA screening at Atlanta onto Delta flight

What gets me the most is how many people forget where their guns are or whether they are loaded or not.

If I had a gun, I be damn sure I knew where it was at all times.

Somebody's in biiiiig trouble. I am really surprised this happened, considering all the searches and pat downs the TSA does. It's amazing that with all the security measures in place this happened. I imagine there's going to be a big shake up in that particular area of TSA at Atlanta airport and that several people might find themselves standing in the unemployment line.

As the Russians used to say, "So long as they pretend to pay us, we'll pretend to work."

Immediately after 9/11 when it was announced that 45,000 TSA agent would be hired, I considered it to be a huge government employment program and not much else. It was a "feel good" move for the public. Previously many people thought that the screeners were already public employees however the airlines hired screening agencies for the job and, of course, these agencies were usually the lowest bidders. Since then I've read numerous accounts of TSA failures to detect weapons and explosives and wondered if it was just a small percentage of millions of passengers that slipped by or that there was a tremendous failure in training TSA personnel, a lack of supervision, attitude or morale problems, etc. At one time I advocated that concealed carrier licensed citizens and former law enforcement persons be able to take advanced federal training and be allowed to supplement the air marshal efforts by being allowed to bring their weapons on board. Frankly I'm not sure if that would have been a good idea, but I think it would have been worth some research. It has been said that the TSA has to be good 100% of the time but the bad guys only have to be successful once. I just don't know what the solution may be. Whatever it is, apparently what we have now isn't working.

Maybe this is far to obvious for smart folks....Exactly how many guns were used on 9/11? I forget.

just for clarity, you are allowed to have a firearm in your checked baggage, but not carry on

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition

Thank God this guy was a good guy.

TSA is smoke and mirrors. Prior to 9/11 the pilots didn’t lock the cabin door now they lock the cabin door that’s all they needed to do.

Any thoughts as to why someone would fly from ATL to Tokyo, and back, in one day? That’s got me puzzled, and I wonder if that is a factor in the story... or did I misread? Hhhmmmm.....

Question #1- Why did this woman report that she carried a gun through security?

Question #2- TSA says the security lapse was not related to staffing issues from the shutdown. Which means that it was simply a matter of the lapses that their "highly-trained" personnel are capable of every day.
This is supposed to be good news?

What seems to have been overlooked since TSA came into existence is yes, the government took over the administration and supervision of the security personnel, however, they are still hiring the same minimum wage folks who were doing the job before 9/11.

Since these posts are monitored by government officials, I'll suffice it to say that this does happen more often than reported. The amazing thing is that these guns do not go onto sneak out of hiding and hijack aircraft on their own.

I smell i political rat in this story,, it was more about the shutdown than the ho
w the gun got through.. I call BS.

300,000,000 guns in America.....it was bound to happen as the law of averages dictate. If I read the article correctly the passenger self reported the incident? 2nd amendment quoters don’t jump all over this but, the bar is set very low for gun ownership, open/concealed carrry permits, level of competency and specific gun knowledge! However, the IQ levels, common sense thinking and reaction to real or perceived threats vary as much as the opinions on this forum. From the 2 year old that pulls mommy’s gun from her purse and shoots her dead to the mass murderer in Las Vegas to the guy who walks into the local tire store with a .45 on his hip as if it were some kind of Macho status symbol.

Just a quick comment: the report states it was learned by "customer disclosure." The question here is whether or not a firearm really was carried through, or did a customer with an alternate agenda (perhaps) report it when it didn't happen? Another thought is whether or not it might have been a plastic 3D printer made weapon with insufficient metal to alert a screening device or x-ray.

well isn't that a handy FACT...disclosed by none other than the most trusted (choke) non partisan (choke) news (choke) network on TV. Being used as a 'government shutdown" item by CNN. This happens whether the gov is open or shut. I think, for the most part, that TSA does a pretty damn good job. and I don't think this about many government operations.

Archie Bunker solution from the 70s, give everybody that gets on board a gun.

Considering captain lies all the time Trump and his ego, combined with TSA/ATC that aren't being paid, this isn't much of a surprise. We're going to be heading from KSFO to EGLL next month and we're not even sure if we'll be able to board the aircraft or if the flight will be cancelled without any TSA or ATC folks on duty. It's an air disaster waiting to happen just because some idiot thinks a $5.7 Billion wall is going to make any difference at all … even structural engineers (not contractors as they just do the work, they don't design the wall of stupidity) said that the wall would cost on upwards of $100 Billion and 10 years to complete simply because it will have to survive rainfall and the run off from water than would deteriorate it rapid if not constructed correctly.

But hey, Captain Ego Trump and his low IQ wants (ignoring his own border agents recommendations and pictures of the tunnels and good confiscated at port of entry) to give people a "fake" sense of security because he promised it without actually thinking about it.

And the result, no wall, no TSA, no ATC … is that the "Art of Making the Deal" another "fake" book Trump didn't write? And this is Jan 18th, TSA agents not showing up or calling in sick is now around 1/3 of the staff and that is going to increase the longer the shutdown continues … not to mention how motivated are TSA going to be when not being paid?

The exact same government budget proposal that the Republican controlled congress gave to Trump to sign for 2018, which he did sign, was given to Trump for 2019 which he did NOT sign. 75% of the US population polled do NOT want a wall, only Trump and the minority "Nationalist" (another word for KKK) want a wall that does nothing.

A view from the rest of the world!
The gun is the problem in the USA! Is it true that more people die from being shot than in road accidents? Nowhere else in the free world is this problem and I have yet to hear that a gun crime was stopped because a good guy had a gun.
I'm sorry if this rocks a few boats but the rest of the world does not share your problem.

The solution is to privatize airport security, and make them responsible to the airlines or airports. The TSA generally DOESN'T detect firearms or "suspicious" packages, and has never once caught an actual terrorist.

This happened a few years ago and upon landing in Detroit the pax went straight to an airport police officer and self disclosed. Didn’t make the news, but definitely lends credence to the notion this happens all too regularly. Luck for us no one to date has had malicious intentions.

As a side note the incident I am referring to was also a female pax with the gun left in her purse.