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Man with guns turns himself in at Logan Airport following terminal evacuation
By Christopher A. Szechenyi, Boston.com Staff, 10/30/00
BOSTON -- Authorities at Logan Airport have found a man who carried two disassembled guns through an American Airlines check point this morning, causing the evacuation of Terminal D and the delay of five flights.
A Massport spokesman said the unidentified man had inherited the guns from a family member and was traveling from Texas to Maine. The passenger turned himself in to State Police at Logan this morning after a security official spotted the weapon in an x-ray machine.
"We did find the person who checked the handgun," said Phil Orlandella, a Massport spokesman for Logan Airport. "The gun wasn't assembled."
"The man went to the state police and said, 'I think I caused the problem,'" said Orlandella. State Police questioned the man this morning, and he told them he inherited the weapons and was traveling from Texas to Maine.
"It doesn't look like any charges will be filed against him," said Orlandella. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident. Officials evacuated the American Airlines concourse this morning after security workers thought they spotted a weapon in a passenger's carry-on bag.
The security officials also delayed five airplanes from taking off to check all of the bags aboard them, according to Orlandella.
Dozens of passengers on the affected flights are now going through security again as a precautionary measure, he said.
A few moments after the terminal was evacuated, passengers were allowed to return inside.
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"[Even if there would be] few tears shed if and when the Second Amendment is held to guarantee nothing more than the state National Guard, this would simply show that the Founders were right when they feared that some future generation might wish to abandon liberties that they considered essential, and so sought to protect those liberties in a Bill of Rights. We may tolerate the abridgement of property rights and the elimination of a right to bear arms; but we should not pretend that these are not reductions of rights." -- Justice Scalia 1998
Man with guns turns himself in at Logan Airport following terminal evacuation
By Christopher A. Szechenyi, Boston.com Staff, 10/30/00
BOSTON -- Authorities at Logan Airport have found a man who carried two disassembled guns through an American Airlines check point this morning, causing the evacuation of Terminal D and the delay of five flights.
A Massport spokesman said the unidentified man had inherited the guns from a family member and was traveling from Texas to Maine. The passenger turned himself in to State Police at Logan this morning after a security official spotted the weapon in an x-ray machine.
"We did find the person who checked the handgun," said Phil Orlandella, a Massport spokesman for Logan Airport. "The gun wasn't assembled."
"The man went to the state police and said, 'I think I caused the problem,'" said Orlandella. State Police questioned the man this morning, and he told them he inherited the weapons and was traveling from Texas to Maine.
"It doesn't look like any charges will be filed against him," said Orlandella. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident. Officials evacuated the American Airlines concourse this morning after security workers thought they spotted a weapon in a passenger's carry-on bag.
The security officials also delayed five airplanes from taking off to check all of the bags aboard them, according to Orlandella.
Dozens of passengers on the affected flights are now going through security again as a precautionary measure, he said.
A few moments after the terminal was evacuated, passengers were allowed to return inside.
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~USP
"[Even if there would be] few tears shed if and when the Second Amendment is held to guarantee nothing more than the state National Guard, this would simply show that the Founders were right when they feared that some future generation might wish to abandon liberties that they considered essential, and so sought to protect those liberties in a Bill of Rights. We may tolerate the abridgement of property rights and the elimination of a right to bear arms; but we should not pretend that these are not reductions of rights." -- Justice Scalia 1998
