DELTA CEO: "We're going to not allow anyone to check a firearm into any of the metro D.C. airports

[demmiblue]

DELTA CEO: “We’re going to not allow anyone to check a firearm into any of the metro D.C. airports starting this weekend and carrying through the next week, unless you’re law enforcement and you’re authorized to be carrying one.”

Link to tweet

'We're all on high alert': Delta to ban checked firearms, increase security on flights to DC

Starting this weekend, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the airline will ban passengers traveling to Washington, D.C., from checking firearms as part of increased security measures ahead of the inauguration.

"We're all on high alert based on the events over the last couple of weeks up in Washington,'' Bastian said in an interview on CNBC early Thursday.

Only law enforcement officials will be exempt from the ban.

Bastian said the airline will also add other security measures at the airports and on planes — seen and unseen — in the coming days "as we look to the week ahead.''

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2021/01/14/inauguration-security-delta-bans-checked-weapons-dc-flights/4156304001/

[frazzled]

1. That should be every day

as far as I’m concerned. Like you can’t bring your dog into a restaurant.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Some of the terrorists were law enforcement.

[Blues Heron]

3. This should be permanent, national policy

You can mail your gun like people have to do with lithium batteries.

[DVRacer]

4. No you can't

Any form of package delivery of a firearm has to go through a FFL that includes usps, FedEx and UPS.

[Blues Heron]

6. Well, they can drive then

[roamer65]

5. They actually allowed it before this?????????

[fescuerescue]

11. 100% yes

All airlines will transport guns in checked luggage. It's an extra form.

Been that way since they banned guns in the cabin in the early 1970's.

[LeftInTX]

12. Not in carry on

Article is about checked baggage in the cargo hold

Delta will ban firearms in checked baggage into DC for a brief period

[roamer65]

13. One has to be careful of federal firearms laws.

They get real sticky interstate.

[roamer65]

7. Terrorists aren't gonna use airlines for weapons transport.

They are going to drive them there.

Good decision, but it won’t stop them.

The no-fly list would have a better impact for impeding terrorist operations.

[lagomorph777]

9. Both parts are needed; many of the terrorists haven't been ID'd yet.

At least we can stop them flying with guns.

[global1]

8. So What About The Other Airlines?...nt

[fescuerescue]

10. I would imagine the people we need to worry about

Are already there.