Pilots: Gun Certification Too SlowWASHINGTON -- While the pace of training and deployment of armed pilots on commercial flights has picked up, supporters of the program say the Bush administration still is making it unnecessarily difficult for crews to take guns into the cockpit.
David Mackett, president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance, a group formed to lobby for guns in the cockpit, contends the Transportation Security Administration isn't moving to get substantially more pilots trained to carry guns because it has never really wanted the program.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/14/101456.shtml* FW Note: Surprise, surprise, surprise...a government agency that wants civilians to be defenseless...
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