US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year

how she even got the gun through security.

You can quite legally transport a firearm in your checked baggage, because it's not accessible to you during the flight.

But yes, the TSA is a joke, and red teams have roughly a 90% success rate at getting firearms and simulated bombs through "secure" checkpoints. It's security theater; it catches people that aren't really trying very hard--or truly forgot that they weren't supposed to carry a firearm in their carry-on bag--and it makes the majority of people think that flying is completely safe. Not very long after 11 September, I was flying to New York City with a friend that accidentally had a rather large switchblade in her carry-on, at a time when switchblades were illegal throughout the US. Not only did she carry it to NYC, she was able to get it back to Chicago, all without the TSA noticing.

Goodson told police she was actually “scared” of shooting the gun and hoped simply producing it would be enough to deter potential threats. “If that didn’t do it I would probably just pistol whip,” Goodson was quoted as having said.

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