At least every couple of years I head overseas to take part in an international shooting competition. If you think that flying with firearms within the United States is nerve-racking, the thought of going abroad might be downright terrifying. In all honesty (knock on wood) I have never had an issue with traveling with my guns to other countries. Each time I have been well prepared with copies of necessary paperwork and a traveler’s dictionary in my back pocket, just in case. (more)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two New York lawmakers have called for a passenger advocate at airports to immediately act on complaints by passengers over security screenings. (more)
Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Gibbs’ purse drew more attention than she bargained for this week, when its metal-embossed design in the shape of a gun was deemed a “federal offense” by TSA employees at the airport in Norfolk, Va. (more)
ALEXANDRIA — Holiday travelers could receive enhanced pat-downs at the hands of Transportation Security Administration agents in the next few days, but TSA failed to enforce a key foreign pilot screening process that could have prevented the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (more)
The cumbersome task of kicking off your shoes at U.S. airport checkpoints may soon be gone, Politico reported Tuesday. (more)
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee dubbed a new Transportation Security Administration behavior-detection program set to begin Monday as “chat downs.” (more)
It doesn’t take much to get an airport security badge these days, even if you are a dog. (more)
Transportation Security Administration screeners confiscated a pregnant woman’s insulin and ice packs Thursday afternoon at Denver International Airport. (more)
The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday it has begun installing software to give passengers more privacy when they’re screened by some of the full-body scanning machines at airport checkpoints. (more)
A Colorado woman has been arrested for giving the TSA a little taste of its own medicine. (more)
We celebrated our freedoms on the Fourth of July, but we seem to be slowly losing them. (more)
Would you let your mother, daughter, friends and neighbors continue to suffer unwarranted indignities at the hands of government agents if you had the power to stop them? (more)
AUSTIN — The Texas House on Monday gave preliminary approval to legislation that prohibits invasive pat-downs by federal airport security agents after incorporating changes that led House Speaker Joe Straus to drop his resistance to the bill. (more)
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has insisted for years that its notorious body-scanners at the nation’s airports are “safe for all passengers, including children, pregnant women, and individuals with medical implants.” (more)
A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show. (more)
The shock of a video of a Transportation Security Administration screener patting down a 6-year-old child has drawn anger and even a subsequent potential legislative response. But the TSA’s actions were not improper, says Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. (more)
Under fire after a video surfaced online of a 6-year-old Kentucky girl undergoing an enhanced pat-down at the New Orleans airport, a new bill would require Transportation Security Administration agents to obtain parental permission before performing new invasive pat-down techniques on children at airports. (more)
Facing outrage after a video surfaced online of a Transportation Security Agency (TSA) worker performing the new enhanced pat-down techniques on a six-year-old girl, TSA defended its decision in a statement Wednesday. (more)
“Who’s Bogdan Dzakovic?” you may ask. “And why should I care whether he flies?” (more)
