Have you seen the news about three American tourists being stopped in Turks and Caicos for having ammunition in their luggage?
It’s been on three separate occasions. These three men can get up to 12 years in prison for this.
It’s nice to see how strict the gun laws are in other countries, but I have one question for our country – how did the bullets get by the TSA at our American airports???
I’ve been stopped and searched for a pair of tweezers in my luggaage and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve randomly had my hands swabbed for explosives. So how did bullets get by the TSA process?
I’m not for guns of any types – hunting or whatever, so I have mixed emotions about these guys who had bullets in their luggage. I know they were leftover from hunting trips and such, but still – random bullets just floating around in the bottom of your luggage? How careless can you be?
And the next time a TSA agent stops me for something stupid, I’m going to say, “Why don’t you check for real problems, like bullets in luggage that you seem to miss.” But I better not.
One funny story about the tweezers – I was leaving NYC at JFK and an agent calls out, “Whose luggage is this?” I calmly walked over and said, “It’s mine.”
He then says, “Don’t touch it!” And I responded, “I know, I know, I watch ‘To Catch a Smuggler,” and he laughed and said, “So do I.”
He let me go with my little pair of tweezers.
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