‘rules for thee, but not for me..\u00a0 \u00a0and that goes for prosecution too’<\/p>\n
TSA finds firearm in anti-gun California lawmaker\u2019s luggage<\/a><\/p>\n Democrat California Assemblyman Jim Cooper, who authored anti \u201cghost-gun\u201d legislation and receives an F rating from the NRA-ILA, apparently forgot on March 3rd that he had a loaded firearm in his purse. TSA found it during the X-ray screening of his messenger bag, which, according to Cooper\u2019s own office, \u201clooks like a purse.\u201d If you think he got in trouble for this, you\u2019d be sadly mistaken.<\/p>\n According to\u00a0the NRA ILA<\/a>:<\/p>\n [Cooper] was not charged during the incident. In fact, the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office told the Sacramento Bee that law enforcement stored the discovered firearm for Cooper while he was on his trip and returned the gun\u00a0to the lawmaker upon his arrival back in Sacramento.<\/em><\/p>\n Had\u00a0you<\/em>\u00a0done this in California, you would have been jailed and\/or fined. Well, probably.<\/p>\n The official story is that Cooper enjoys some exemption to the California ban on possessing a firearm in the \u201csterile\u201d area of the airport due to the fact that he\u2019s a retired law enforcement officer. However, bringing it onto a plane in his\u00a0murse<\/a>\u00a0would have been a clear violation of Federal law and it certainly appears that, had TSA not caught his\u00a0roscoe\u00a0in his carry-on\u2026well\u2026Cooper had pretty clearly forgotten it was in there.<\/p>\n Additionally, Cooper wasn\u2019t charged\u00a0under Federal TSA laws<\/a>\u00a0for attempting \u2014 intentionally or not \u2014 to pass a loaded firearm through a security checkpoint, which carries a hefty civil fine up to $10,000 for a first-time offense.<\/p>\n Enjoying special person status and retaining your right to carry a gun\u00a0in the airport, and attempting to pass a firearm through TSA screening and getting caught but not sanctioned (in fact, accommodated) are pretty far apart on the leniency scale. Looks like anti-gun\u00a0politician Jim Cooper enjoyed both of these things though he\u2019d undoubtedly lobby to have the book thrown at you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘rules for thee, but not for me..\u00a0 \u00a0and that goes for prosecution too’ TSA finds firearm in anti-gun California lawmaker\u2019s luggage Democrat California Assemblyman Jim Cooper, who authored anti \u201cghost-gun\u201d legislation and receives an F rating from the NRA-ILA, apparently forgot on March 3rd that he had a loaded firearm in his purse. TSA found … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78918,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78917\/revisions\/78918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}