Gun-Toting University President Sues Airline, Blaming It for His Night in Jail

[NorCal Mtn Flyer]

Geebus... how hard is it to add a few lines of code to check destination.

If destination = New York and
passenger check firearm flag = true
than error

You can't expect the departing city baggage agents to be abreast of all the stupid gun laws, but it's pretty easy to do with a computer.

Unless this whole thing was entrapment of some sort, but that's some serious tin foil...

I travel commercial airlines fairly frequently (never to NY), with various firearms packed in my checked luggage. Never have I ever seen any counter person designate anywhere that I have a firearm in my checked bags. All they care is that the 'unloaded firearm' certificate is signed and dated.

Only after the TSA has inspected the firearm/bag, do they put their little holographic sticker on the luggage destination tag. Even that I wonder about, as the regs supposedly state that NO indication of the presence of a firearm is to be placed on the bag.

[paul0660]

One thing I find amusing is that this is a University president we're talking about, a group that almost universally opposes carrying firearms on university property.

And yet, he is doing the right thing. Sometime no one notices until it is their ox which is gored.

[17+1]

Geebus... how hard is it to add a few lines of code to check destination.

If (destination == New York &&
passenger check firearm flag == true)
{
printf("You're not goin' anywhere, scooter.\n");
}

Fixed it for you.

[SilverTauron]

A blanket denial is wrong too. Some people can legally carry in NY or NJ, and an airline doesn't have the expertise to determine who.

Police credentials can be easily read by the dumbest airline counter monkey.

[Kodemonkey]

Fixed it for you.

At least I'm not the only nerd here. Although I haven't written any substantial code in at least a decade.

[randian]

Police credentials can be easily read by the dumbest airline counter monkey.

I was thinking about the few well-connected civilians with carry permits. Besides, I don't want an airline counter agent in the business of determining whether the credentials I present are (1) genuine, and (2) authorize the actions I claim them to authorize. Send me on my way and let the other end sort things out.

[SilverTauron]

I was thinking about the few well-connected civilians with carry permits.......

Hahaha



While New York State may have a decent number of citizens with carry permits, the situation in NJ is deplorable. I remember lurking on a NJ gun forum once and noticed a topic posing the question of what a New Jersey CPL looked like. Several pages later, not one person could say from firsthand sight what it looks like-including law enforcement posters! They're so rarely issued even if someone has the pull to get one, they'd still be arrested because the cops wouldn't know what the permit looks like.This is the result when one needs to appear before a circuit court judge for a carry permit as is law in NJ. As such I doubt Delta or any other airline would loose money on banning guns on routes going to and from NJ.