[gunsmith]

When T-shirts are outlawed!
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15288951&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=kelly-s-air-gun-strife-name_page.html
Kelly's air-gun strife
Mar 13 2005

Wales on Sunday
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STEREOPHONICS frontman Kelly Jones sparked a security alert at Heathrow Airport by wearing a t-shirt with a gun on it.

The gravel-voiced Cwmaman singer, who is enjoying the band's first ever Number One with single Dakota, was hauled to one side by over-zealous officials after setting off the metal detectors.

The new dad said: "I beeped as I went through so they took my belt, watch and phone off.

"The guy takes me aside and says, 'You know you're not supposed to wear that'.

"I said, 'Not supposed to wear what?'. I honestly didn't have a clue. It's not as if my t-shirt was loaded."



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[Parallax]

I'm trying to think of something stupider than that... but I'm not coming up with anything :rolleyes:

[P95Carry]

Hope Ted Nugent doesn't have to gain entry there!!! Bound to be something ''firearm'' on him, even if a bullet key-ring! :p

Maybe a T-Shirt with pic of a nuke would outdo that one!

[ProactiveReactionary]

this is stupid. pulling someone aside for wearing a shirt with a gun printed on it??? this is what the alert was all about? some paint on a shirt that resembled a gun?

i know its the UK but they've outlawed shirts with a picture of a gun on it? tell me this is a joke.

whats next? banning the words gun rifle firearm shotgun and their plural forms as well?

then what? "you thought of a gun! you're going to prison for life! we'll teach you not to have free thought!"

[Zeke Menuar]

this is stupid. pulling someone aside for wearing a shirt with a gun printed on it??? this is what the alert was all about? some paint on a shirt that resembled a gun?

I came within a couple of hours of getting fired for wearing a t-shirt that had a 1911 on the back. It was a t-shirt I won for paticipating in the 2000 Oregon Single Stack Championships. I had been wearing the shirt once in a while for a year and a half before some unnamed employee claimed that the image on a shirt made them "uncomfortable". I had to hire a lawyer and almost sue to keep my job. How a shirt about a sporting event makes someone edgy is beyond me. If it was a golf tournament shirt there wouldn't have been an issue.

It's all about perceptions. As long as firearms keep getting bad press, bad roles in films and long as violence makes people money, firearms will continue to have bad image problems.

ZM

[ProactiveReactionary]

similar to people who work at a cr maker plant and get harassed by management for not having a car from the company. like you work at a ford plant and drivy a chevy blazer to work. they make you park it offsite (this has happened before).

or soft drink makers get pissed if you bring in a soft drink from another company.

people have been fired for such stupid things and nothing is really done about it.

while this isnt the same situation its just as stupid. i get rather angry people get all excited to watch college students play basketball but i dont create a ruckus and try to ruin the party for everyone else.

its like poeple who get offended by words. you're right, its all about perceptions. people hear nothing but bad things about guns so they think nothing but bad things about guns.

[JeepDriver]

I went through Heathrow a couple months ago wearing a Sig Arms T Shirt w/o anyone saying anything to me. I'n fact I had a 3 hour lay over in Iceland on that flight w/o any problems.

[coylh]

Some cultures are better than others.

[mbs357]

Every day in HS I wanted to wear a shirt with a gun on it. I just knew I'd get suspended or be forced to change it.
Man I hate people. >_>

[Standing Wolf]

It's not as if my t-shirt was loaded.

Witch hunts next month.

[Orthonym]

of an image I saw on the website of the late, great, Mark Penman. (Laissez Firearm)

It was the front of a t-shirt, showing a nice bolt-action rifle, with a big scope on it.

The caption under the rifle's image was, "Vote from the roof tops!"

[KarlG]

whats next? banning the words gun rifle firearm shotgun and their plural forms as well?

It will happen much slower than that. Scooby Doo is the first step.. They will attempt to remove the letter "G" from the alphabet. Once we all get used to "randma" and "rampa"... rut roh !

[cracked butt]

Its only a matter of time before they remove everyones' thumbs to prevent people from making 'finger pistols' with them. Then they will have to remove the rest of the fingers when they realize that people can make 'hammerless finger pistols.'

:rolleyes:

[Jeff]

I'm trying to think of something stupider than that... but I'm not coming up with anything


Let me try: Water freezes quicker in a 400° oven than it does in a freezer.


Nope, still not stupider.

[artherd]

I knew there was a reason we started shooting at them 200-something years ago.

Too bad our current government is heading disconcertingly along a similar road towards tyrany.

[Zach S]

I'm trying to think of something stupider than that... but I'm not coming up with anything
IIRC, a member here had a Glock beltbuckle confinscated by the TSA. I've also heard of them confinscating a Glock keyring (I may be getting them mixed up). In one of the gun rags I read about a man getting his CMH confinscated* at PHX.

//edit: *Not confinscated. But almost. My bad...

[yorick]

I want to know what they would do if he had this as his carry on :-)

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