AS11296 -- Hijacked?

Fri Oct 1 22:48:34 UTC 2010

Bryan Fields wrote:
> On 10/1/2010 17:12, George Bonser wrote:
>   
>> Citizen: "Hello, police?  There is a crate of M-16's and a truckload of
>> ammunition just sitting here on the corner"
>> Police:  "That is less than the Army goes through in 3 months ...
>> *click*"
>>     
>
> You'd have better luck calling the ATF, they are the ones empowered to enforce
> the tax on machine guns.  The local police do not have any authority to
> enforce those taxes, and could get sued if they tried to.
>   
Here's an incident where the "local authorities" didn't know what to do 
about a possibly very worrisome incident at SJC (San Jose International 
Airport):

<http://forums.mercurynews.com/topic/two-men-armed-with-assault-weapons-barely-cause-a-stir-at-mineta-san-jose-international-airpor>

The problem is that people don't *think* - they just follow orders, 
follow their training.  No one had thought about or trained for this 
type of incident.  Fortunately, in this case, the people were not 
terrorists.  Meanwhile, TSA confiscates bottles of shampoo and water.

jc