laxflier

Last info was him quietly killing it by stopping financing and diverting funds. Anything more?

Tinpusher007

Here's a copy of an email I received from ALPA addressing this very issue...

In stark contrast to an op-ed article in today’s edition (March 17, 2009) of the Washington Times, that claims “…President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology,” TSA officials reassured ALPA they are committed to the FFDO program and have plans for its expansion.

TSA’s leadership immediately contacted ALPA and requested a meeting to discuss this news report. ALPA representatives met with TSA executives this afternoon and were told that TSA embraces the FFDO program, that there are no plans to reduce or restrict its growth, and that the agency fully intends to grow and expand the program.

Government representatives acknowledged that the program needs additional funding to achieve these goals, and that they are actively pursuing sources of additional funding. These funds will be used to enhance the program’s management structure and oversight, which if implemented, will address an ALPA Board of Directors security priority.

TSA is currently training hundreds of pilots each year and plans to continue to train at least that number or more into the future. The size of the FFDO cadre has grown so large that additional resources are needed to provide greater structure and oversight to this important program, which TSA referred to today as “an important layer of defense.”

“ALPA is very pleased that the TSA was so proactive in communicating its concerns to the Association and we are likewise pleased that we are able to report this good news to the membership,” said ALPA President, Capt. John Prater. “ALPA values its relationship with the TSA, and it is obvious from the way the agency handled this event that the feeling is mutual.”

Stay tuned.

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Aviatrx

You are tripping! Show me some hard facts of this happening! Doesn't seem likely to me.

B757200ER

Boy, Democrats really hate guns, don't they?

7576United

"As reported in the Washington Times".......

The Washington Times is owned by Sun Myung Moon. Here's a little blip from Wikipedia about the good Reverend.



Sun Myung Moon was born in 1920 in rural Korea. His official biography states that at the age of 16, Jesus appeared to Moon and asked him to continue the work he had started 2000 years earlier.[1] In 1945, Moon released a book of his organized teachings entitled The Divine Principle and in the ensuing years began to lay the ground work for his Unification Church which he officially founded in 1954. [2][3] In the early 1970s, Moon began a concerted effort to bring his teachings to America. [4] Since that time, the Unification Church has grown exponentially worldwide, and is now a financially powerful organization.

Tinpusher007

Who's tripping? Me or the OP?

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Oberon

I love it...one guy makes something up and publishes it in the the Washington Times and now "Democrats hate guns"!

B757CA

It seems to me that there is a bit of a disconnect between what the op-ed piece in the Times said and what the TSA said in response. The gist of the original article was that 2 million dollars of the program's funding had been diverted to something else indicating that this may in fact be the beginning of the FFDO program drawdown. When one considers the general anti-gun stance we see from the Obama administration this is not an unreasonable conclusion.

The TSA response simply states that THEY intend to increase the program-emphasis on "they". This is precisely what one would expect from this agency. There is nothing in the TSA statement that addresses the reduction in funding that occurred.

TSA wants the program to grow. What TSA WANTS and what the Obama admin GIVES may in fact be 2 completely different things. This bears close watching.

Along similar lines, research IL state rep Durkin (D) and Illinois bill HR687 and what that means for the future of firearm ownership in Illinois. It is not good.

myoface

Democrats dont hate guns...we hate it when some nutjob gets a machine gun (legally) and mows down a bunch of people. I still dont understand the need for that type of weapon in the hands of the average joe....

johnso29

Well, they got to have some way to kill them dang critters.