A U.S. citizen who flew Delta Airlines from Atlanta to Tokyo-Narita a week ago was denied entry after she declared that she had mistakenly carried a firearm and live ammunition during her trip.
The passenger apparently noticed this “mistake” sometime during the flight and notified the cabin crew immediately about her still carrying the gun.
Our guardians of public safety – the TSA – at her U.S. gateway in Atlanta, GA didn’t detect it either, a fact that ultimately lead to this calamity and therefore the firearm didn’t just had to be declared to the cabin crew but also Japanese authorities upon arrival.
You can access the story on The Tokyo Reporter (see here).
An American woman who was found to be in possession of a gun on a Delta Air Lines flight earlier this month was denied entry to Japan, officials at Narita International Airport said on Friday, reports Sankei Sports (Jan. 11).
The woman, aged around 30s, was found with a pistol and an unspecified amount of live ammunition inside the cabin of the plane prior to its arrival at Narita International Airport on January 3, the officials said.
The matter emerged after the woman confessed to a cabin attendant that she had brought the gun and ammunition onto the flight “by mistake.” The officials believe a lapse in security allowed the woman to board the flight, which originated in Atlanta, Georgia.
After the landing of the plane, the woman was denied entry to Japan. That same day, she was returned to the U.S., the officials said.
Japanese law is extremely tight about any sort of weapons, in fact the weapons law of Japan begins by stating “No one shall possess a firearm or firearms or a sword or swords”. Japanese citizens are however permitted to possess firearms for hunting and sport shooting though this involves a stringent licensing procedure that usually takes years.
As such it’s not surprising that the authorities would turn the individual back and deny her entry to the country even if it was a stupid mistake. Likewise would U.S. authorities not take too kindly on someone arriving states side in the same situation, you could probably be lucky if they ain’t charging you with something on top of it all.
Conclusion
A lapse in security? No sh#t! The TSA received a $7.7 Billion budget so the public is kept safe yet a passenger just walks onto the airplane with a handgun and ammunition in her pocket. And she didn’t even try to hide and conceal it. Happy New Year!
This makes you wonder what other things are flying with us on a daily basis but hey I feel a lot safer that the TSA asked the 70 year old lady in front of me to empty her water bottle last week.
Look at the average tsa worker in ATLANTA… It’s a known weak point.
Agree!
This happens when you hire based on quotas, or race, instead of hiring the most qualified.
How we got Barry and Michael Obama.
They are terrible. Barely high school graduates.
Does that black women know you stole a picture of her?
By the way before you make a smart ass comment, that is my Mom!
Absolutely none of this is the passengers fault.
Btw, you missed a ‘s’ from your first name
You need to re-read the law. It is a crime to even try to do what she did.
None of the TSA workers are getting paid as the budget has not passed. Hopefully, this does not lead to a lapse in security.
We don’t need all this crap. Could be better run and more efficient.
In 2017, almost 4000 guns confiscated by TSA. Atlanta had the most. TSA dong job. Not perfect like all you critics. Doing a job which is not too popular with some of you.
4000 confiscated is not very meaningful. How many missed???!
It is very meaningful. Who knows what might have in 4000 opportunities. Don’t know how many missed. Do you? But 4000 dolts had them taken away. Anybody who tries to fly with a weapon is just plain stupid.
No that is my point. We don’t know their error/miss rate. It makes me wonder…. And yes, these passengers are dolts!
How does one “mistakenly” carry a gun and live ammunition aboard a transatlantic flight?
Transpacific flight perhaps.
hahahaha
It’s amazing how many gun toters are trying to pass through airport security. It’s even more disturbing that some are actually making it through. What countries, wherever an airline would land, would welcome you right off the plane packing heat, loaded or unloaded? Nigeria? Mexico?
Lol, Mexican gun control laws are 50 times stricter than in the US.
Gun control? 2017 was Mexico’s most violent year on record for gun related homicides. I guess that’s what you get with gun control.
Thanks to the rampant corruption of US gun manufacturers and sellers, Mexico is overrun with US-made guns. We give them guns so they can give us drugs.
Not true. Mexico has always be gun toting. Currently murder capital of the world. Beat out South America.
But not St Louis or Chicago. And put that bat down.
Indeed, history has demonstrated time and again that the safest countries/places are those that deny the natural right of self defense.
A small ray of light/sanity. Thank you.
Funny. I flew through Atlanta a few weeks ago and TSA would not allow my my dougnuts and Coca-Cola
The woman should be banned forever from getting on any airplane. Who simply “forgets” you’ve got a gun and ammo? Only a blithering idiot. Hopefully she’s sterile and can’t pass her idiot genes to another generation (sadly, it’s exactly these kind of fools who breed).
You’re racist and sexist. Like you’re perfect and never made a mistake? You’re why I have a baseball bat by my front door. Racist!
Lol. You’re even more dopey than this woman who “forgot” her gun and ammo when taking it on a plane – ’cause that’s just normal thing to do when you’re packing to go on a trip to a country with extremely strict gun control laws.
And I bet you breed too…
Who bred you moron? Racist liberal mental midget! What grown adult says “lol” ?
What part of this gentleman ‘s post is racist? Pls help us all understand. And put that bat down.
Looks like we found the woman in the story right here.
Wow! Playing the race card, when there’s no reference to anybody’s race whatsoever.
It says more about you than anybody else!
The blithering idiot. Surely, the real issue here is how the gun and ammunition got past security undetected? As Sebastian put it so aptly “This makes you wonder what other things are flying with us on a daily basis” Why do you focus on the woman? We do not know anything about her and her circumstances; why she carries a gun. Whether she packed it intentionally or whether she carries it in her handbag at all times and simply forgot to take it out. By the way, I am all anti-guns. And I admit I have prejudices about people who use “lol”.
Surely, the real issue here is how the gun and ammunition got past security undetected?
Yes it is and that is what the post states.
If I’m not mistaken, she ultimately gave the gun back to Sebastian.
When people who make this “mistake” start getting fined $100,000 and getting 3-5 years in Federal Prison on the first offense they’ll quit making this “mistake”. No such thing as a “good guy with a gun”. You have to assume everyone who carries a gun is a bad guy these days. The only real options are bad guy with a gun or moron with an inferiority complex.
Amen to that.
The security ecosystem was never meant to keep people safe. It’s main purpose is to keep people “terrified” enough to cease rational thought and keep the powers that be in power.
The TSA is a waste of time they will search my bag and complain about bags of candy and at the same time completely miss the tools and knifes that are in my bag. (I work in field service so i often fly last minute with tools, parts and supplies.)
And how many planes have you attempted to hijack? I am willing to bet it is the same number as the unfortunate delta passenger.
your right but its proof that the TSA doesn’t work and is a huge waste of money
Lots of comments deleted. Interesting.
1. Might she have done it purposely to illustrate the obvious dangerous effect of the shutdown?
2. Other articles mention it was a man (get your act together, media!).
3. I want to find out more about this hard to believe story.
The Tokyo Reporter reports “Salacious (*) news on crime, politics, business and entertainment from Japan”.
(* having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters). Some reference !
1. Why do we only find out about this 11 days after the fact?
2. Could “she” – other articles mention it was a man !? – have done it purposely as a “political gesture”, to show potential effects of the shutdown?