New project at Dulles IAD

[Winter Borne]

I am about to take on a multi year project at Dulles International Airport, good news and bad... I just pulled this off their web site.

"The Authority's current regulation (which was adopted in 1987 when the Airports were transferred from the federal government to the regional authority) does not allow anyone to bring on Authority property dangerous weapons unless the person is authorized by federal law to carry a weapon aboard an airplane, or the weapon is deactivated and properly checked as baggage promptly upon arrival at the Airport, or it is properly packaged for shipment by air or by a freight company. The regulation applies everywhere on Airport property, including the Dulles Access Highway and the Dulles Toll Road, Virginia Route 28 and Virginia Route 606. (Metropolitan Washington Airports Regulation §8.4.)"

Any sugestions besides the obvious...meaning don't take the project? If I take it, and it's a great project, I won't even be able to keep it locked in my truck!!!


mk :banghead:

 

[Regolith]

Any way you can park some place that is not in a restricted area and walk to your work? That's the only way I can see to (legally) get around the restriction.

 

[longwatch]

Looks like MWAA needs to update their website because the only restriction in state law is in the airport terminal.

 

[Cacique500]

I'm pretty sure you can carry in VA up to the secure area.

If you want a definitive answer, contact Phillip at www.vcdl.org - there was a huge battle/legislation over this in the last year or two and I'm pretty sure they got it straightened out.

 

[VARifleman]

Cacique, I always read that law as restricting you from any of the buildings. But I guess it goes down to what is a terminal, and I couldn't seem to find that in the darn law. grrr...

 

[Rabid Rabbit]

Longwatch is correct. IIRC they changed that law about 4 years ago. According to the previous law you could not ride on the toll road or Rt. 28 (both roads are very heavily traveled) with a gun.

Here is how the regulation reads now.
http://www.metwashairports.com/_/File/_/PDFregs.pdf bottom of Page 67
§ 8.4. Dangerous Weapons Prohibited.
(1) No person may possess a dangerous weapon within or bring any dangerous
weapon into the Airports’ terminals or the airfields or any building that
opens onto the airfield on which signs are posted so as to give reasonable
notice to the public unless:.....

 

[DrewH]

Yes, Virginia Code was changed a few years ago to restrict banning of weapons to the airport terminal building. Here is the text:

§ 18.2-287.01. Carrying weapon in air carrier airport terminal.

It shall be unlawful for any person to possess or transport into any air carrier airport terminal in the Commonwealth any (i) gun or other weapon designed or intended to propel a missile or projectile of any kind, (ii) frame, receiver, muffler, silencer, missile, projectile or ammunition designed for use with a dangerous weapon, and (iii) any other dangerous weapon, including explosives, stun weapons as defined in § 18.2-308.1, and those weapons specified in subsection A of § 18.2-308. Any such weapon shall be subject to seizure by a law-enforcement officer. A violation of this section is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. Any weapon possessed or transported in violation of this section shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth and disposed of as provided in subsection A of § 18.2-308.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any police officer, sheriff, law-enforcement agent or official, or conservation police officer, or conservator of the peace employed by the air carrier airport, nor shall the provisions of this section apply to any passenger of an airline who, to the extent otherwise permitted by law, transports a lawful firearm, weapon, or ammunition into or out of an air carrier airport terminal for the sole purposes, respectively, of (i) presenting such firearm, weapon, or ammunition to U.S. Customs agents in advance of an international flight, in order to comply with federal law, (ii) checking such firearm, weapon, or ammunition with his luggage, or (iii) retrieving such firearm, weapon, or ammunition from the baggage claim area.

Any other statute, rule, regulation, or ordinance specifically addressing the possession or transportation of weapons in any airport in the Commonwealth shall be invalid, and this section shall control.

(2004, c. 894; 2007, cc. 87, 519.)

 

[Leatherneck]

Yes, The VA statute was changed to preempt local governments from enacting local gun regulations. But The Airport Authority was last seen muttering "Yeah, but we ain't a government, so we'll do what we want." I don't know if they ever got a proper beat-down for that, but it hasn't been much in the news of late.

I'd be wary of the Airport Authority goon squad.

TC

 

[zoom6zoom]

I'm pretty sure you can carry in VA up to the secure area.

Nope, we're prohibited in the common areas as well.

 

[DrewH]

The statute on weapons in the airport was amended/passed separately from the preemption statute. Virginia's already existing preemption statute was modified in the same year, IIRC, to eliminate grandfathered local gun laws.

The MWAA airport authority, after some back and forth with activists, amended its regs to conform with new VA law (it is listed in a post above) so there is no need to "beat-down" the MWAA.

 

[Cacique500]

Thanks for the corrections...I wasn't 100% sure since it was awhile ago but it's coming back to me now.

Moving from state to state every few years and trying to keep all these changing laws straight is getting harder and harder...