Come on, like you’ve not accidentally let a small pistol slip through:
Lambert Field police never found what appeared to be a pistol that slipped through an X-ray screening machine Friday night at the airport.
Five flights were delayed and a sixth bound for Toronto was diverted to Detroit so that officials could re-screen the hundreds of passengers who had filed through Concourse A to the flights.
The incident began about 6:30 p.m. when a Transportation Security Administration screener reported what was believed to be a double-barreled derringer handgun on an X-ray monitor.
Airport police arrived within two minutes, said Chief Paul Mason. But the suspicious item and the man who brought it through security had left the area. Investigators reviewed surveillance video of the area but could not identify the man who may have been carrying a the weapon.
I’d expect it wasn’t really a two-shot derringer, but the fact that they could not immediately identify it, where they saw it, or the person whose luggage in which they saw it troubles me a great deal.
No doubt more inconvenience and government employees would help avert this situation in the future.
