Since early 2002, charter operators using planes >12.5k MTOW have been subject to the Twelve-Five Standard Security Program.

What LASP aims to do is to basically apply those for-hire, common-carriage, air carrier policies to not-for-hire, non-common-carriage, non-air carrier PRIVATE aircraft. Unfortunately, the Thousand Stupid Arseholes can't comprehend that besides the aircraft utilized, the operations are night-and-day different.

The TSA is attempting to apply the FAA certification definition of "large" to their security policy, which is in itself flawed; a CJ2+ with a MTOW of 12.5k would not be regulated by LASP, while a CJ3 with a MTOW of 13,870 would; same goes for a Citation II (550) with a MTOW of 13.3k vs. a Citation II SP (551) with a MTOW of 12.5k. In the latter example, the airframe of a 550 and 551 are IDENTICAL, the only thing different is an AFM limiting the max takeoff weight. A much better threshold would be 30,000lb, which would exclude everything smaller than a 900XP (which has a lower MTOW than a Saab 340).

Using another mode of transportation in analogy, LASP would be paramount to applying commercial motor carrier regulations on you driving your personal car, with required stops at every weigh station and carte blanch for law enforcement to search your vehicle and even hitch a ride with you to "observe", against you will and that little thing called the Fourth Amendment.