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From Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
OBAMA EFFORT TO END ARMED PILOTS PROGRAM AN OUTRAGE, SAYS CCRKBA
BELLEVUE, WA – A revelation by the Washington Times that President Barack Obama is trying to quietly end the armed pilot program, making air travel more vulnerable to terrorist attack, should outrage travelers, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“The Washington Times nailed it,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who proposed arming pilots just hours after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and championed the armed pilot program. “What Obama is doing is risking public safety, as the newspaper put it, ‘in the name of an anti-gun ideology’.”
The newspaper reported in its Tuesday edition that President Obama is “quietly ending the federal firearms program” by diverting some $2 million from the training program to hire “supervisory” staff, whose job, it appears, will be to harass armed pilots through unnecessary field inspections.
“How dare the president, or anybody in his administration, take measures to erode the safety of air travelers,” Gottlieb questioned. “The armed pilot program provides a guaranteed level of security to the public. There may or may not be an air marshal aboard every airplane, but there is definitely a pilot in the cockpit.
“We trust commercial airline pilots with $500 million aircraft,” he continued. “We can certainly trust them with $500 pistols to defend those planes, and the lives of their passengers.
“Certain individuals have never liked the armed pilot program,” Gottlieb acknowledged. “These anti-gun, anti-self-defense bureaucrats seem more interested in their own power, and protecting their little empires, than they are in protecting the public. And now, Obama is catering to their anti-gun bigotry.”
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1 year ago
Cousin of mine works for FAA in some sort of security/safety capacity (sometimes doing "undercover" checks,on-flight observations,etc.).His opinion dovetails with Gottlieb's re:armed pilot,and if I know him,being literally half-Irish from his dear-departed mom Pat's side,he'll probably tell them "Fuck You" if Obamatard policy is enacted.Why do these idiots ALWAYS go the "let's add more supervisors" route,rather than listen to folks in the field,who know?...Sorry,for a moment I assumed they gave a shit about the safety of Americans.They have their own security Bubble-World...'cause they're SPECIAL!
ReplyDeleteTies in nicely with the recent ruling from the DOD to sell empty shell casings only to those who agree to melt them down for scrap. Scrap brings in only 20% of the value of them when bought by re-manufacturers of bullets but it puts a serious dent into the bullet market.
ReplyDeleteciccio - apparently, they were planning to sell them to CHINA!
ReplyDeleteOh. yes.
I heard last night, they rescinded that directive. Is there anything these guys get right?
You know, as a pilot, I’m a little confused. I’ve been hearing this “gun ban” story. Yesterday, I heard “do you hear what Obama is planning” from my copilot. As he asked that question, my Colt was in my bag in the compartment above my head. (I know, I should keep it with me, but it digs into my hip when I sit down.)
ReplyDeleteThis afternoon, I’m in a hotel room with my laptop. (We don’t fly out for another four hours.) I’m reading this story everywhere, but it all seems to track back to the Washington Times. That, and other blogs, are the only sources I'm finding.
In my email, there’s nothing to tell me that my gun can’t go with me. Don’t even have one of those twice-a-week emails telling me that there’s new paperwork I have to fill out.
And then I found this on Fox News.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/18/federal-officials-deny-report-pilot-gun-program-end/
I'm thinking that somebody at the Moonie Times got his wires crossed. There doesn't seem to be anything to this story.
Well, I'll be very happy if it's not true. But I think they might have, as yet, just "proposed" it.
ReplyDeleteSo it's probably not in effect at this point.