United States Department of Transportation
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TRIS Online Accession Number:808426
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NTL Classification:NTL-AVIATION-Aviation Safety/Airworthiness
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Abstract:Federal aviation security regulations prohibit passengers from carrying firearms and other dangerous items, such as explosives and flammable liquids, on board commercial aircraft. The prohibition against these items is intended to protect the traveling public from terrorism and other acts of violence as well as from safety threats posed by substances that could ignite or explode in the pressurized environment of an aircraft. However, in some cases, law enforcement officers may have a mission-related need requiring them to travel with dangerous weapons, such as firearms. As a result, regulations permit federal, state, and local law enforcement officers to carry firearms and other normally prohibited items with them on commercial airlines. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recognizes that when firearms are on board aircraft, even when in the possession of trained law enforcement officers, there is the potential for the firearms to be misused. The agency's guidance on the carriage of weapons notes that a misplaced bullet could result in fire, damage to an aircraft's hydraulics system or engine, or injury to an innocent person. During the past 8 years, FAA's carriage of weapons task force has been discussing how to make weapons carriage by law enforcement officers safer, and, in 1997, FAA proposed changes to the weapons carriage regulation intended to reduce the number of weapons carried on board by law enforcement officers and to clarify the requirements in the existing regulation.
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