HEINUS – NEW YORK The TSA announced it discovered and confiscated hand grenades from an air traveler at Newark Airport who was bound for Belgium. The elderly woman was found with five grenades in her bags. In a similar case in Salt Lake City last October, a passenger was detained for having four land mines in checked baggage.
These and similar cases are causing an outcry from the National Fragmentation Association (NFA), an enthusiast group that claims these travelers are being singled out. NFA president Willem deBooms says his members are being treated like criminals. “Our people are protected by the second Amendment, too,” said deBooms. “A fragmentation grenade is just as much of a weapon as a gun. So our right to bear grenades, satchel charges, bazooka rounds, anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, light anti-tank rockets and RPGs, can’t be abridged under the Constitution. It’s a sacred thing, really.”
Other groups are supporting the NFA, claiming they, also, are being unfairly targeted. Leda Boucher, National Director of the Battle Axe, Pole Axe and Pike Coalition (BAPAPIC) says her members often face hostility from various types of law enforcement. “BAPAPIC people are constantly harassed by police,” Boucher said. “Police seem to think it’s somehow okay to confiscate a battle axe or a halberd from someone just having a fun day at a park or playground. The Second Amendment should really mean something. People should ask themselves, if we can’t be in a public place with a pike or a spear, what rights do we even have left?”
(RPG image by Michal Maňas, halberd image by Rama)
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