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Originally Posted by slamfire
Airport Security guards seldom know anything about firearms and have been given almost unlimited powers of search and detention.
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The problem is actually just the opposite of the TSA officers having too much authority or power. The problem is that they have NO authority. There are plenty of them that would do things a whole lot different and entirely understand that a bullet on (or off) a keychain, or an empty shell casing, is not threatening, but they aren't allowed to make decisions. Everything must be done by the unbending law of Standard Operating Procedure and the interpretation there of is completely at the discretion of the senior staff, who are not, and mostly never have been, on the front line.