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TSA misses another "forgotten" loaded gun

Filed under: Asia, Japan, NewsApparently all the security equipment in the world can't fix stupidity and poor screening. A transfer passenger was arrested at Tokyo's Narita airport last week when security staff found a loaded gun and ammo in his carry-on... ...full story at Gadling

from Gadling on Wed, Oct 07 2009

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07 Oct 09 visit U.S. man carrying loaded gun arrested at Narita airport  »  Japan Times NARITA, Chiba Pref. (Kyodo) An American man has been arrested at Narita International Airport for carrying a loaded handgun after security staff at a U.S. airport failed to detect it, Narita airport authorities said Wednesday. The 51-year-old man was...
08 Oct 09 visit Crime › American transit passenger with handgun arrested at Narita  »  Japan Today An American man has been arrested at Narita International Airport for carrying a loaded handgun after evading tight security at a U.S. airport, Narita airport…
17 Oct 09 visit Security checkers accountable?  »  Japan Times Regarding the Oct. 8 article "U.S. man carrying loaded gun arrested at Narita airport": This is really unfortunate for the American, whom I know personally. As to whether he "smuggled" the weapon, there is no due process in Japan as in the good old USA,...
31 Oct 09 visit God-loving Christians with guns  »  Japan Times In her Oct. 18 letter, "Security checkers accountable?," Cecilia Bustos' description of the American man who was arrested at Narita Airport for smuggling a loaded weapon into the country — who she knows personally to be "a God-loving Christian who wou...
04 Jun 08 visit Crime › Narita airport security employee arrested for threatening e-mails  »  Japan Today Police arrested an employee of an airport security company Wednesday on suspicion of threatening to produce poison gas or explode a bomb at Narita airport.…

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