Shotgun Found At Atlanta Airport

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Had to chuckle at this piece of Pulitzer award writing. Does not mention if it was in front or behind the TSA checkpoints.

http://www.cbs46.com/news/17445093/detail.html
ATLANTA -- Atlanta police are investigating after a Delta Air Lines employee found a disassembled shotgun in a break room at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Police said the employee was looking for his iPod Sunday night when found the shotgun under a soda machine.

The employee told his supervisor, who notified police.

A police report said that a more thorough search of the break room turned up a container of gun lubricant and "tools for disassembly."

An Atlanta police officer did a background check on the weapon but could not immediately determine who owned it.

Airport spokesman John Kennedy said he couldn't comment on the case because it is an ongoing investigation.

The incident comes a month after a judge upheld a ban on guns at the airport.

A gun rights group had sued the city and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport over the ban, claiming a new state law allowed people with concealed weapons permits to carry guns in certain areas of the airport.
 
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Tools for disassembly? I'm wondering how many pieces it was in, cause you can break it down into a number without any tools at all.
 
A police report said that a more thorough search of the break room turned up a container of gun lubricant and "tools for disassembly."
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Seems to me that someone was using their lunch break to clean their shotgun after a trip to the range and left it there until he could pick it up after work. Poor guy probably didn't have a locker to put it in so he hid it under the coke machine until the end of his shift. Then one of his coworkers finds it and he's out a gun. Maybe he should of waited until he got home to clean up his gun but you know how it can be sometimes. Just thinking about your firearm sitting there caked with residue would be too much for some people.
 
How about TSA found something he liked, 'confiscated it' and hid it until he could figure out how to smuggle it out piece by piece. :evil:
 
If it had been found at LAX I would bet it was stolen from somebody's baggage. Atlanta is probably just as bad now too. I wouldn't imagine anyone being able to bring a shotgun into the airport wheter they worked there or not without someone noticing.
 
If this shotgun was found in the secured area of the airport it would create quite a few problems for whoever brought it there. From reading the report it sounds like it was found there.

Delta has a few Employee lounges outside security but most are inside.

Rob
 
Word from the wise...Buy top quality gun cases, and lock them up securely for airline travel. I have seen long guns FALL OUT of their "Locked" cases on the ramp while working at airports before. It's amazing to me that people will buy and travel with a cheap case and one of those little luggage locks on a case with their high dollar shotgun inside. Also, try to keep high dollar electronics in your carry on when you fly
 
MY money's on theft from a traveler's luggage and being removed from the premesis one piece at a time.

Ever seen the bottom of a Coke machine? Hot, humid, stadnign water at times and dirty as hell: No one who like his gun would keep one there. I'm not sure how you'd even get a shotgun under there, even broken down.
 
+1 for jaholder1971

Nothing else makes any sense at all. Cleaning your gun at work is off the wall enough, but if you work at an airport????

If that ends up being true, someones a few cards short of a deck.
 
Is it possible it is actually a weapon owned by the airport police or the airport runway maint. people. I've seen guys use shot guns to scare of birds from the ends of runways.
 
Calling Sherlock Holmes..

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And not one fingerprint on the break-down tools, let alone parts of the gun..?

Not one formal complaint in the last week of a shotgun missing from, a, John Does luggage..? Complete with departure or arrival time and what airline handlers were at that particular gate-handling luggage area..?

Good thing this didn't happen at LAX, as that would be an Airport Shutdown, 2hr event, complete with "breaking news" on several TV stations..


Ls
 
MY money's on theft from a traveler's luggage and being removed from the premesis one piece at a time.
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Agreed, I'm willing to bet that somewhere there's a theft report filed by a passenger, with that shotgun's serial number on it. The real "hunt" will be finding that report.
 
I've seen guys use shot guns to scare of birds from the ends of runways.
what? Do you mean some grass strip in Montana, or LAX?

Where and when please...
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LAX and JFK, to name a few, have quite serious bird problems and employ fireworks, propane cannons, hawks, dogs, remote control airplanes and, yes, shotguns to keep the airspace clear. The last Air Force Base I was stationed at had a big bird problem and would systematically drive birds across and then off the base almost daily, using fireworks and shotgunners.
 
LAX is a transfer point for many flyers going elsewhere. On the way home to Arkansas from Alaska I had a Colt Trooper stolen at the LAX by baggage handlers and my buddy Q had his Glock stolen there too (although they left his shotgun alone).

American Airlines eventually sent me a check for $1250 for my pistol. I added a thousand bucks to my claim expecting them to only send $250, the cost of the pistol. Maybe I'm the reason they are going broke?:)
 
Definitely Low Road!

I bet the background check on the weapon uncovered that it had actually been served four or five warrants for arrest, and it was a suspect in a murder case. You know how those shotguns are.
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Blatant and obscene profiling. Disgusting and highly discriminatory. It was trying to turn its life around. It was going to the Range every Sunday. It was memorizing the Four Rules. It was trying to get clean.

I'm reporting you, Funderb.
 
Nothing else makes any sense at all. Cleaning your gun at work is off the wall enough, but if you work at an airport????

If that ends up being true, someones a few cards short of a deck.
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I was being sarcastic. Sorry. I forgot to put a evil smilie with the post to show that I wasn't being serious. Here- :evil: - That's what was missing from my post. Sometimes my humor can be a bit vauge.
 
How about TSA found something he liked, 'confiscated it' and hid it until he could figure out how to smuggle it out piece by piece.
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I'll bet some baggage handler stole it and was trying to break it down small enough to sneak home in his lunch box.
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Agreed, I'm willing to bet that somewhere there's a theft report filed by a passenger, with that shotgun's serial number on it. The real "hunt" will be finding that report.
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I'm with you guys.

[Johnny Cash music] I got it one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime [/Johnny Cash music]
 
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