Airport Terminal Carry Maps Aren’t Always Reliable, And Could Get You Arrested

By Brandon Curtis

Republished with permission from American Gun Owners Alliance

Soon after the shooting that occurred inside the Fort Lauderdale airport terminal the topic of carrying a firearm in an airport quickly took off among both pro and anti-gun groups. Right about this time a so-called ‘airport carry’ map began circulating on social media.

I have to be honest, the first time I saw it I didn’t give it much thought, you see these things all the time and after a while your eyes just glaze over but when I saw it a second time I paid attention and was quite suspicious of it.

The map shows all but six states allowed carrying firearms in the non-secure areas of an airport and shows three states where open carry is supposedly legal. I tracked the map down to an article on a Florida pro-gun organization website that was titled ‘Airport Carry is legal in 44 states, but Florida will put you in jail’. This just didn’t seem right so I set out to verify their claims.

I soon stumbled upon a paper that had been done by a district attorney that showed this map and then went on to discredit it state by state. Not …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation