Man Carrying Loaded Weapons Arrested At Sacramento Airport

[JonLP24]

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A Montana man is being held without bail after he reportedly tried to go through an Sacramento International Airport checkpoint with four loaded guns in his possession.

Transportation Security Administration agents noticed a gun in a carry-on bag belonging to Harold Edward Waller, 45. They then patted him down and found he was carrying a loaded gun in a holster. Two more guns were also found in a full search of his carry-on bag, according to a TSA official.

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TSA agents discovered a total of four loaded firearms: a .45 automatic loaded with 12 rounds in the magazine and a round in the chamber, two loaded 25-caliber automatic weapons loaded with six rounds in the magazine, and a 9mm Smith and Wesson, a TSA official told CBS13.

Waller had 192 rounds of ammo, according to the federal official. Agents also found three knives in Waller’s possession.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/03/23/man-carrying-loaded-weapons-arrested-at-sacramento-airport/

[steve2470]

1. He was simply exercising his 2nd Amendment rights

[elleng]

5. Was gonna say that; thanks.

SOOOO pissed at this 2d amendment interpretation, and sorry about DUers who disagree.

[arthritisR_US]

16. +1, +1 (you both were walking in my

head but being great DUers I know you took your shoes off first)

[elleng]

18. Sure did, arth!!!

[arthritisR_US]

21. Such a sweetie

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. To his credit, Mr Rip VanWaller just awoke from a 60 year sleep

and wasn't aware that the shiny flying machines don't allow weapons aboard.

[slackmaster]

3. Mentally ill

I hope he gets the help he needs.

[gateley]

6. +1 nt

[steve2470]

15. +2 nt

[Ecumenist]

4. Wow, that's about 3 miles from me. What was he planning?

and what made him think he could get that onto the plane?

[gateley]

7. Props to TSA for catching this. We've read the stories about how

people snuck weapons onto planes, and I swear some of the agents I've dealt with don't seem a bit interested in what's in my bag, so these agents deserve to be lauded.

[jberryhill]

11. Ummm.... So... What IS in your bag?

They don't seem all that interested in mine either, but I don't have guns and ammunition in there either.

(although somebody needs to update the folks at SJO in Costs Rica on lighters... They got all of mine last week)

[gateley]

13. They were afraid you'd set your shoes on fire. nt

[greyl]

17. Ever had an issue with e-cigs? nt

[jberryhill]

23. Yes, but not with TSA

Mexican customs took it.

There is a patchwork of laws on them now, so I don't take them on international flights.

[Historic NY]

8. This guy had more guns than a gun store....

“He was very discouraged, depressed, saddened,” she said by phone from Montana. “His thought process was just all messed up. He did things that didn’t make sense. I know he needs help.”

Eight more load guns left in his car...how could he leave all them behind.

[ellisonz]

25. And they tell me...

...down in the Gungeon there's no such thing as gun hoarding, it's all just "collecting."

[MrScorpio]

9. Hey, that's just a fraction of what you'll need for a trip to the store in Montana...

The gun haters in Sacramento just don't get it.

[Speck Tater]

10. He was justified. He saw someone in a hoodie board the plane.

It was his civic duty to get on that plane and gun the bastard down.

[jberryhill]

12. It's okay! He didn't have any liquids!

[Cleita]

14. First time I flew to Alaska in 1968 about half the passengers had carry on weapons,

in gun cases, of course, which they stashed in the overhead compartments. Don't know what they had on them or in their luggage. But back then, no one batted an eyelash. It was on an Alaskan airline. Can you imagine that happening today?

[PavePusher]

19. If we could, we might still have some extra buildings in NYC.

[Ikonoklast]

20. Magical Guns Would Save Lives.

An airliner full of armed individuals trying to shoot hijackers, what could possibly go wrong?

More guns is *not* the answer to every question ever asked, no matter how much you sqeeze your eyes shut and wish it to be so.

Zimmermzn is *your* guy.

Deal with it.

[PavePusher]

22. "...what could possibly go wrong?"

You can posit a scenario worse than what actually occured? Please, expound for us. Completely ignoring your hyperbole that all the passangers would be armed... Sheesh. At least try to be plausible, it'll help your credibility.

'More guns' isn't always the right answer, but at least in that one case, 'no guns' certainly didn't work out well.


And no, Zimmerman is most emphatically not mine. I do not have to deal with anything you pull out of your ass like that.

[Ikonoklast]

24. You are flopping around like a gasping fish.

Keep up the good work.

You are hurting your single issue, big time.

[ellisonz]

26. Wait wait wait...

- okay continue.

[PavePusher]

27. No, I'm not. But you are most certainly dodging.

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/artfuldodger.htm