Originally Posted by
Packrat
Layer of security? LOL!
Why don't you just admit the whole FFDO scam was perpetrated by a bunch of gun nuts who thought they could use 911 as an excuse for airline pilots to get blanket concealed carry licenses?
Its a FACT that one of the original sponsors of the FFDO program not only failed FFDO training the first time around, but when he was readmitted ended up getting fired from the program because he forgot his gun in a public restroom.
Let's review some other examples of the stellar FFDO performance:
One guy shot a hole in an Airbus inflight trying to lock up his pistol.
Another genuis recently flushed a bunch of bullets down a biffy on an international flight.
You must be pretty young. Otherwise you would know that at one time, going back to the 60's and 70's pilots did carry guns in their flight bags, if they wanted to. No one objected and there weren't any crazy incidents.
As for the pilot who had an AD with his .40 in the cockpit; that was the result of a defective designed holster that the TSA required to have a padlock shackle inserted THROUGH THE TRIGGER GUARD, of a loaded and cocked pistol. They had been warned about it months before including a letter from the TSA inspector general warning it was likely to produce accidental discharges. Yet the FFDO program management insisted on staying with it- that is until the third AD- that time in a cockpit.
If the pilots had been allowed to do as we always had in decades before all this fake security we wouldn't even be talking about this.
The advent of the FFDO program was not from any pilot. It came from some members of Congress post 911. I could give you names of congressmen calling for pilots to be armed, but I doubt you would really care about the truth- considering the invective you have posted so far.