Negligent Discharge in airport

Flight attendant accidentally brings gun to airport. Cop responds to firearm in baggage. Cop accidentally causes Negligent Discharge.

http://newsone.com/2045779/republic-airlines-flight-attendant-jaclyn-luby/ http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2012/09/attendants-gun-accidentally-discharged-at-philadelphia-airport/70000983/1

The attendant was briefly taken into custody and then released after receiving a summary citation for bringing the gun to a TSA security checkpoint. As for the officer who reportedly discharged the gun by accident, police spokesman Evers tells the Inquirer: "She will go back to training for handling weapons. She will be off the streets for a period of time."

Dumbass meets dumbass

It would be nice to know the reason for the handgun in the first place. Officer needs to be terminated, IMO, not just sent for additional training.

And what is a "well"? Is that like a hole in the wall?

In reply to Ranger50:

let alone throw well........wtf does throw well have to do with a gun.......oh wait, philly, nvm.

I'll say either forgotten on luggage or she's carried numerous times without issue.......as to why, see them terrorists over there

I was afraid to read this, expecting some other kind of "discharge".

Ranger50 wrote: It would be nice to know the reason for the handgun in the first place.

Way to flounder a thread by the third post.

Maybe the female flight attendant feels safer having the means to defend herself.

JoeyM wrote:

Ranger50 wrote: It would be nice to know the reason for the handgun in the first place.

Way to flounder a thread by the third post. Maybe the female flight attendant feels safer having the means to defend herself.

Don't be so quick to judge...I assume what he meant is the flight attendant knows full well they can't bring handguns on the plane, so why was it in their luggage.

Fair enough.

Ranger50, I'm sorry that I immediately assumed you were trying to question gun ownership as a whole. I need to take a chill pill.

No flounder, legitimate question. Never gets reported.

I think that once she presented the carry permit she should have been asked to clear and check the weapon into baggage claim before boarding the plane. What is the big deal? I had a 2" knife (the kind you get for free at conventions) in my carry on once. I just said "Oh, crap. I use it for cutting my fingernails" and they tossed it in a box and let me go thru. The alternative would be to keep the knife and leave, go back and check it then wait in the hideous line again ... not disorderly conduct. Because it was a simple accident. That is why they CHECK.

JoeyM wrote:

Ranger50 wrote: It would be nice to know the reason for the handgun in the first place.

Way to flounder a thread by the third post. Maybe the female flight attendant feels safer having the means to defend herself.

My wife is an FA. She is allowed no weapons. If anything were to happen, the cabin locks down and she is left defenseless along with the passengers. I'm not saying she should have a gun, but a weapon of some sort would be nice.

The FA should have had the weapon properly secured for flight. The officer should be more careful, but accidental discharges happen more often than you would think. Its hard to know every weapon, and if you're like me, you carry chambered. Cop doesn't know the gun? Hopefully its pointed in the right direction.

Well, most handguns are generally the same in their basic operations. Also, to make it go off, something had to hit the trigger (probably her finger) -- that's breaking basic firearm handling rule #2! (#1 being: don't point it at anything you don't want to shoot.). I'm not going to give the cop that much leway on this one.

yeow! Who wants a gun to go off at 10,000 feet?

Checked luggage is fine.. but I would not want that thing in the cabin

Not to mention the "always assume a gun is loaded" rule...

mad_machine wrote: yeow! Who wants a gun to go off at 10,000 feet?

You know what happens if a round punches a hole through the jet at 10,000 feet? You get an annoying whistling noise*. Hell, at 30,000 feet.

*Source: I've opened up a golf-ball sized port in a jet more than a few times, barely trips the cabin altitude sensor.

RealMiniDriver wrote: I was afraid to read this, expecting some other kind of "discharge".

No, no. This was at the airport, not the bus station.

How much do y'all want to bet this was a case of racking the slide and THEN dropping the mag? Followed of course by decocking it in a careless manner.

In reply to Osterkraut:

You speak the truth.

How the hell does that go off accidentally? It's a hammerless Smith and Wesson revolver. The only way to make them fire is to pull the heavy trigger all the way back.

In reply to Kenny_McCormic:

That would make sense.......aside from being a revolver and all......

In reply to Woody:

This exactly

I read that it wasn't a police officer but a TSA flunky that touched it off.

Bonus points:

Possibly the easiest firearm in the world to unload and confirm that it is completely unloaded.

In reply to Woody:

Agreed

N Sperlo wrote: Cop doesn't know the gun? Hopefully its pointed in the right direction.

Hand it to the licensed owner and say "Clear this please".