U.S. State Senator Arrested in Hong Kong After Carrying Gun onto Flight

https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/u-s-state-senator-arrested-in-hong-kong-after-carrying-gun-onto-flight-c2df0b9c

by impish9208 • 3 years ago

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LiquidSky• 3 years ago

Being unaware if you even have a gun in your luggage is the most American thing ever.

injb3• 3 years ago

Happens all the time. They have signs up all over the place at every airport in most states warning you not to pass a certain point if you're carrying.

I have recurring nightmares about it.

catlover762• 3 years ago

...but how would you accidentally be carrying a gun or have one in your luggage? I don't own a gun, but I don't see how, if I did own any firearms, I would not be explicitly aware of their locations at all times, especially when it comes to having one on my person or in luggage.

wilde• 3 years ago

If I put my drink in an unloaded handgun can I have it on a flight now? /s

injb3• 3 years ago

Can't read the article, but I wonder how he got caught if it was in his carry on luggage. Do they screen that again in HK after you land?

pestatije• 3 years ago

in stopovers they do

javagram2• 3 years ago

The article says he self reported it after realizing mid flight it was in his bag.

vfclists• 3 years ago

It is the Wild West in Washington DC, defunding the police and all that.

PS. I am not American, but do state senators hang out in Washington DC or do the operate only in their own states?

themadturk• 3 years ago

State senators, like all US citizens, are free to travel just about anywhere, including Washington DC, and Hong Kong, for that matter. "Operating" in any of these places is a different matter. State legislators are typically not full-time legislators, since legislatures are usually only in session part of the year. They have jobs or (more often) own businesses as well. They typically don't have any legislative business in the nation's capitol.

catlover762• 3 years ago

The same people who want to "defund the police", which doesn't necessarily mean what it sounds like, are not typically the same people who own firearms. Nor is "defund the police" relevant to Washington, DC, as such funding fights are mostly at the state and local level.

Typically, "state senator" refers to senators at the state government level, and thus they are in their own states.

If you're not an American, you may wish to refrain from glib comments on American politics.

travisporter• 3 years ago

Uh, americans and non-americans: the article says Washington state; there are no senators representing DC

marssaxman• 3 years ago

The politician in this article is not a senator in the US federal government, who would work in Washington DC, but a senator in the Washington State government, whose capital is Olympia. He represents a heavily forested rural district whose largest city has 38,000 people, very much the kind of place where carrying a gun is common. You joke about the Wild West but that is exactly what this is about; frontier mentality has not yet vanished in rural parts of the American West.

U.S. State Senator Arrested in Hong Kong After Carrying Gun onto Flight

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