DUH! Tips on air travel from Arkansas official: No guns in carry-on

[RamboLiberal]

LITTLE ROCK -- Here's a tip for summer vacationers traveling by air: No guns in your carry-on.

A common oversight the Transportation Security Administration sees at airports in Arkansas is small firearms. Usually, the person inadvertently carrying a gun has a concealed weapons permit, said Federal Security Director Jerry Henderson, and the matter is handled administratively, although there could be civil fines up to $10,000 and criminal laws might apply.

Regulations do permit transporting firearms in checked baggage, but not in carry-on, with limited exceptions for law enforcement officers. Checked firearms must be unloaded, in a locked hard-sided container, and must be declared at the check-in.

"The big concern we have is that we end up with a lot of firearms coming through our checkpoint," Henderson said.

In April, David Huckabee, the son of former Gov. Mike Huckabee, was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay $855 in fines and costs after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for having a loaded Glock pistol in his carry-on bag at the Little Rock airport. The younger Huckabee said he made "a silly mistake."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07163/791919-37.stm

And I thought the woman in St. Louis I was behind with 5 water bottles was clueless, or the woman in Pittburgh trying to go through the metal detector with a ton of jewelry on.

[PDJane]

1. Never mind the ton of jewellry......I've done that too.

Try getting through the check point wearing an underwire bra without getting groped.

[Hardrada]

2. I understood about the sword and the battle-axe

but the trouble about my chain mail was just too much!