At 10:01 AM 9/13/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:28:24PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
> > But they are. On U.S. domestic flights they have merely to present
> > themselves and acceptable credentials (which BTW the airline personnel are
> > poorly trained to authentic
This is what I vaguely recall -- I didn't write about it myself. I recall
it was a GAO investigation that the Post wrote about. --Declan
At 08:27 AM 9/13/01 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
>At 10:01 AM 9/13/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:28:24PM -0700, Steve Schear w
At 10:28 PM -0700 9/12/01, Steve Schear wrote:
>>If local police officers who fly were allowed to carry their guns with
>>them, warned only to switch to frangible ammunition, this couldn't have
>>happened.
>
>But they are. On U.S. domestic flights they have merely to present
>themselves and acce
At 11:15 AM 9/13/2001 -0700, Derek Balling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 10:28 PM -0700 9/12/01, Steve Schear wrote:
>>>If local police officers who fly were allowed to carry their guns with
>>>them, warned only to switch to frangible ammunition, this couldn't have
>>>happened.
>>
>>But they are.
>But they are. On U.S. domestic flights they have merely to
>present themselves and acceptable credentials (which BTW the
>airline personnel are poorly trained to authenticate) and state
>in a form that they are traveling for LE purposes.
That goes for federal LEOs, not local or state.
