The pilot whose weapon discharged on an airplane is about to be fired. He’s going to be fired because TSA’s asinine policy that requires a pilot to unnecessarily handle a gun and insert an object near the trigger. See here, here and here.

We bloggers have been talking about this for a while. But the pilot whose firearm discharged likely due to TSA policy has made CNN:

If I had any doubt that it was TSA policy that caused the discharge on a commercial airliner, it has since been removed: Via Ravenwood.

Alan Korwin and David Hardy both opine.

TSA’s policy made the other biased Washington paper.

Background here, here, and here. Here’s pics. The Airline Pilots Security Alliance has issues a statement (confirming what I said all along) that TSA policy is to blame: Airline pilots and federal flight deck officers (FFDO) say ill-conceived TSA weapons handling rules were to blame for the accidental discharge of a pilot’s firearm in the […]

In comments here, Marko (who looks like a young Rutger Hauer – seriously check out the pic in the upper right) says: You can lock and unlock the weapon without ever removing it from the holster, and the holster is designed so that the bar of the lock (or the handcuff, for cop use) goes […]

In an update to this, seems it may be accidental. And by accidental, I mean caused by policy: The insane procedures required by the TSA demands that our pilots to lock and then un-lock their .40 side arms was and is a solid recipe for disaster. Did the TSA deliberately create this bizarre and unconventional […]

It was pretty dumb to make pilots use those horrid holsters. Also dumb is the rules for where they can wear them. It’s even dumber to make them put them in an easily identifiable bag. Why not a bright orange bag with “terrorist, steal me” written on it? It’s like TSA is trying to destroy […]

Pilot loses gun. IIRC, pilots can only have their weapons while in the cockpit when it’s locked. And they must leave them in their bag until they get there. This policy seems to be causing some problems. This is not the first time unnecessary gun handling via bureaucratic fiat contributed to gun safety issues on […]