Photos of Pilots accidental discharge

[larrymeyer]

Originally Posted by Thrasher

Gun Accident In U.S. Airways Airliner Cockpit Was TSA Engineered!
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—It was only a matter of time before there’d be an accidental, non-negligent discharge of a Federal Flight Deck Officer’s weapon. Saturday a U.S. Airways pilot’s gun discharged on Flight 1536, which left Denver at approximately 6:45am and arrived in Charlotte at approximately 11:51am. The Airbus A319 plane landed safely and thankfully none of the flight’s 124 passengers or five crew members was injured

The insane procedures required by the TSA demands that our pilots to lock and then un-lock their .40 side arms was and is a solid recipe for disaster. Did the TSA deliberately create this bizarre and unconventional Rube Goldberg firearm retention system hoping for this result? The sordid history of the FAA and TSA’s total resistance to the concept of arming pilots to protect Americans is in itself a scandal.

Putting a gun into a holster and then threading a padlock through the trigger and trigger-guard is required every time the pilots enter or leave the cockpit. This kind of silliness has never been forced on any law enforcement or security officers anywhere in the world until now. Before this holster padlock procedure pilots with guns were forced to carry them around in a cumbersome 22 pound vault. The vault caused problems in the confined space of most cockpits.

FFDO pilots need to carry their side arms in conventional concealed holsters and there is no reason for the unnecessary handling of their firearms in the cockpits.

Most guns have a safty on them to prevent an AD if your putting a trigger guard in and then holstering it and it's a double action you should be aware of the hammer coming back. Sounds like someone is covering their ass

[Thrasher]

The skin is thin, but they still weight a lot. A 757-200 is 250,000 pounds and a 767-400 is 450,000 pounds. Fuel, galley, seats, people, engines, cargo: it all adds up.