Airline Passenger Group Pushed For Ban On Ammo In Checked Luggage

By Tom Knighton

When we talk about anti-gunners, we’re usually thinking of groups like Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, or someone similar. However, anti-gunners also infest plenty of other groups and can push those groups to take anti-gun positions even if there’s no logical reason to do so.

That’s apparently what happened with an airline passenger advocacy group that is now campaigning to ban ammo in checked luggage.

An airline passenger organization used the anniversary 9/11 to push for new regulations that would ban ammunition in checked luggage.

FlyersRights.org, which claims to be the largest US airline passenger organization with 40,000 members called on Trump to close the “ammunition loophole.” The group claims that ammunition in checked bags could lead to more 9/11 style attacks in the future.

During flights, checked bags are not accessible to passengers on planes. The 9/11 terrorists used box cutters to take over the airplanes. The Al-Qaeda members used the aircraft to attack the World Trade Center Twin Towers, and the Pentagon. Passengers resisted the hijacking of a third plane that crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

“We are alarmed that the Trump Administration is hiding and failing to correct past inadequacies and compounding them by …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms