Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour arrested with gun at airpor

[deminks]

Source: Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he will pay a fine after being arrested with a loaded handgun in his briefcase as he went through an airport security checkpoint.

Barbour — Republican National Committee chairman in the mid-1990s and governor from 2004-12 — told The Associated Press on Tuesday he was trying to board a flight Jan. 2 from Jackson to Washington. He said he forgot he was carrying the gun, which he had put in his briefcase after an assistant removed it from his car days earlier.

“This was absentmindedness and nobody’s fault but mine,” Barbour said.

Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said a TSA officer working at an X-ray machine at a checkpoint at Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport spotted a .38-caliber revolver, loaded with five bullets, in a carry-on bag. TSA contacted airport police, who arrested the former governor. The TSA would not release the passenger’s name, but Farbstein confirmed it was a former governor, and Barbour confirmed to AP that it was he.

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[ploppy]

1. What an asshole. EOM

[lapfog_1]

2. Second rule of gun safety my dad taught me

First rule... never point a gun at anything you don't want to shoot.

Second rule... never store a loaded weapon. Remember to clear the chamber.

There are more, but those were the first two.

[Angry Dragon]

12. #3 Always know where your gun is located

[Blue_Adept]

3. It's always good to be absentminded with a gun

Talk about tone deaf.

[shanny]

4. He says he will pay a fine.

Is it up to him?

[C_U_L8R]

5. Who in their right mind...

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walks around with a loaded revolver in their briefcase.
Forget whether your have the right to or not.... but WHY would you???
These gun freaks are paranoid little shits, no??

[lapfog_1]

13. briefcase or suitcase

how the hell did he not hear it or feel it when he was picking the case up by the handle to tote through airport security?

The only way I can figure that part is that he had a foam rubber or styrofoam insert cut to hold the gun the case to keep it from flopping around... and that means the briefcase really had no other purpose than carrying this gun.

If true, then how could he "forget" it was in that case?

[C_U_L8R]

16. Right... briefcase. Thx.

Whatever case... walking around with loaded guns is nuts

[TNNurse]

6. Anyone who cannot remember that they have a gun,

a loaded gun, in their possession, should lose their right to own one. Forever.

[LittleGirl]

11. Nail head! n/t

[tblue37]

15. + a brazillion! nt

[procon]

7. Senile old fool.

A 71 year old man who is so "absent minded" that he can't even remember not to take a loaded gun to the airport, should not be allowed to have any guns!

[rurallib]

8. LOCK HIM UP!!!!!

how else will these lawbreakers ever learn a lesson????

[trof]

9. Good ol' Hayley Bahbuh.

[left-of-center2012]

10. No accident. GOP think they're above the law

Lock him up !

[Iggo]

14. Another responsible gun owner...

...right up until he wasn't.

[Paladin]

17. About what I'd expect from that old piece of trash.

Maximum penalty---NOW.

[gibraltar72]

18. God damned

home grown terrorist.

[joet67]

19. Delicious!