Ammunition rattling around your suitcase?

[Anonymous]

Now a third guy. This one from Richmond, VA. Coming from a cruise ship to T&C.

Wife blames the TSA for not finding the bullets.

https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/consumer/virginia-man-is-latest-american-charged-with-ammunition-possession-in-turks-and-caicos/3351562/?amp=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now a third guy. This one from Richmond, VA. Coming from a cruise ship to T&C.

Wife blames the TSA for not finding the bullets.

https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/consumer/virginia-man-is-latest-american-charged-with-ammunition-possession-in-turks-and-caicos/3351562/?amp=1

All well-off white dudes in their 30s, leading easy lives. Privileged idiots who are overcompensating by traveling around the country to shoot guns.

It’s like a bad SNL skit.

You don’t see any black folks on a cruise getting busted for ammo.

[Anonymous]

12 year minimum is absurd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now a third guy. This one from Richmond, VA. Coming from a cruise ship to T&C.

Wife blames the TSA for not finding the bullets.

https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/consumer/virginia-man-is-latest-american-charged-with-ammunition-possession-in-turks-and-caicos/3351562/?amp=1

TSA is too busy making people remove shoes and getting rid of water to notice something like ammo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sympathize a LOT. Ammunition is very safe by its very design. It is very easy to have a few stray cartridges packed in with some other gear that you simply forgot about. If you don't shoot or hunt, then of course you don't get this.

I made the same mistake traveling into Canada en route to Alaska when I was 17 (late 90s). I had, say, half a dozen .22 cartridges rattling around in a box that contained other hunting gear. Would have sworn I had no ammunition if you had asked me--I simply didn't know. Canadian customs found them and gave me the third degree and tore apart my car looking for a gun. Then they waved me through.

The T&C law is stupid as f*ck.

Complete NONSENSE.

Where is the accountability of SELF?

It's AMMO, not chicklets - have some self discipline and respect and account for it all when not in use and don't be so goddamn careless in this post 9-11 world when you pack for a flight.

This ain't the 90's and that dude ain't 17.

[Anonymous]

On the one hand, most crimes don't have an intent component. You did it, you broke the law, period. Many of us white folk are also totally cool with the unequal application of the law. E.g. the innocent guy from Nebraska gets a pass but the black guy in DC doesn't.

[Anonymous]

They forgot the main rule of shooting - your range bag and your travel bag shall never meet. My range gear is in my basement, only to leave when I’m going shooting.

12 years is excessive, however it is their country. If a British citizen was coming to the US for vacation, and a few shotgun shells (legal in Uk) were found, they wouldn’t face a 12 year sentence.

[Anonymous]

This guy and Brittany Griner are both morons. I have adhd and always research laws before I travel, so I know if I’m allowed to bring my vyvanse. People are always surprised other countries have different laws. Kind of like the stupid people in jail for weed in Asia or for being rude in Dubai.

[Anonymous]

I’m canadian and I’m always amazed when Americans think it’s ‘crazy’ that Canada won’t let you enter if you have a DUI or domestic abuse. Yes, hello, in Canada we take drinking & driving and wife beating seriously. It’s considered it a serious offense, the canadian equivalent of a felony. We don’t want people like you in Canada, thanks and bye!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m canadian and I’m always amazed when Americans think it’s ‘crazy’ that Canada won’t let you enter if you have a DUI or domestic abuse. Yes, hello, in Canada we take drinking & driving and wife beating seriously. It’s considered it a serious offense, the canadian equivalent of a felony. We don’t want people like you in Canada, thanks and bye!

Do you have many friends?

[Anonymous]

Just another responsible gun owner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m canadian and I’m always amazed when Americans think it’s ‘crazy’ that Canada won’t let you enter if you have a DUI or domestic abuse. Yes, hello, in Canada we take drinking & driving and wife beating seriously. It’s considered it a serious offense, the canadian equivalent of a felony. We don’t want people like you in Canada, thanks and bye!

Do you have many friends?

Sure they do. They are probably Canadian and agree with them. WTF

[Anonymous]

Guns have become so normalized in the US but they are actual weapons of death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guns have become so normalized in the US but they are actual weapons of death.

Guns have become this weird hobby of choice for bored white dads living in the suburbs and ex-urban areas. And I’m not talking about hunting or usage a tool for land management. But just being “into guns” for the sake of guns. It was never this way with their fathers’ generation.

It’s completely bizarre.

[Anonymous]

I own several guns and even have a gun club membership in a town I visit frequently for work so I can occupy my nights/weekends there with skeet shooting. I would never put ammo in my airplane travel luggage (versus the bag I pack for driving trips) simply because of the risk of traces of propellant, much less having actual ammo go for a ride somewhere it shouldn’t. I don’t really feel sorry for him.