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Holidays travels means you’ve planned every last detail before heading out the door. But what happens when a diverted plane carries you into territory with unfriendly gun laws?

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  Country singer and “American Idol” winner Scotty McCreery was stopped at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport when TSA agents discovered a loaded handgun in the singer’s carry-on bag. USA Today reported that “McCreery had tried to carry the gun through a passenger checkpoint before boarding a flight July 13. While McCreery has... [Read More]

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  Winter travel is mostly a joyless, gray experience, with snow delays and weather advisories that can leave you stranded. Compound these known problems with traveling with ungainly firearms — lots of big-game and waterfowling opportunities are hottest at the coldest time of the year — and you have a recipe for frustration, and worse.... [Read More]

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Agents for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada found an unusual firearm among the 68 firearms discovered in carry-on bags at airport security checkpoints across the nation the week of July 29th-Aug 4th of this year. According to the TSA, a passenger attempted to bring a gun through security... [Read More]

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