Well, guns somewhere, not where they were supposed to be. I'd be more worried about terrorists infiltrating airport screening and baggage handling departments than with grannies with parched throats.
Guns at O'Hare are disappearing
Firearms being stolen from checked bags
Several handguns have been stolen from bags checked by police officers, military personnel and others on United Airlines flights departing O'Hare International Airport, sparking concern that the weapons are loose in what is supposed to be a secure part of the airport.
...For police officers, word of the thefts is being circulated on the Chicago police union's Web site, which warns of an officer whose weapon was stolen--one of “several cases” in “an ongoing problem”--that investigators confirmed for the union.
“United Airlines is having a serious problem with theft at O'Hare Airport,” a notice on the Fraternal Order of Police site says. “This is something to think about next time you arrange vacation or business plans. Perhaps United Airlines is not the correct choice for flights for law enforcement or military personnel.”
and we wouldn't airport security to actually, you know, secure things, because that would be 'costly'.
Although the law requires guns to be carried in locked, hard-sided cases, baggage handlers have no problem getting into such luggage, he said.The other possibility, experts said, is that TSA screeners who X-ray or inspect bags by hand could be pocketing the guns.
“Nobody has ever really resolved a real way around it,” Laird said. “There's a real dilemma with baggage theft in the airline industry.”
Watching the bags with cameras would be very costly, he said, with hundreds of cameras needed to survey the wide area where bags are handled, he said.
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