I tried to find some articles on this and found this: They sure aren't making a very big deal out of this! Comments there sounded like alot of like minded people from here.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/19/fbi-investigates-attempts-smuggle-weapons-planes/news-breaking-yahoo/FBI investigates attempts to smuggle weapons on planes
By HOWARD ALTMAN
[email protected]Published: June 19, 2009
The FBI is looking into whether there is any connection between two arrests - one here and one in Philadelphia - of men trying to smuggle weapons onto airplanes.
The arrests both took place June 4. Both planes were bound for Phoenix.
In Tampa, federal authorities charged a 24-year-old man with trying to bring a 7-inch knife aboard a plane at Tampa International Airport.
Raed Abduhl-Rahman Alsaif was arrested June 4 as he tried to board US Airways Flight 1077 to Phoenix and Portland, Ore., according to a criminal complaint.
During the screening process, an officer spotted a large chef's knife in one of Alsaif's bags, the complaint states. The knife was concealed between the outside fabric and the expandable pull handles of the bag.
Alsaif told officers a friend had given him the bag, and he was unaware of the contents. Authorities, however, interviewed the friend, who denied owning the bag or giving it to Alsaif.
Alsaif is being held in the Pinellas County Jail pending a bail hearing.
On the same day In Philadelphia, a passenger and an airline employee were charged with trying to smuggle a Smith & Wesson 9- mm semi-automatic handgun through an employees' entrance at Philadelphia International Airport. The plan, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, was for Roshid Milledge, 38, of Philadelphia - a US Airways employee - to smuggle the gun into the airport so that it would be available for Damien Young, 29, of Phoenix, aboard US Airways Flight 1195, bound for Phoenix.
After receiving a call from The Tampa Tribune about the Tampa arrest, a Philadelphia FBI spokesman said his agency is now looking into whether the two arrests are related.
"We definitely want to follow regular investigative measures to see if there is a connection," said FBI spokesman Frank Burton Jr. "We don't know if there is a connection, but we are checking it out."
The FBI will also see if these two arrests are connected to any other cases around the country, Burton said.
"We want to find out if there are any other similar incidents around the country that we can connect, in terms of whether people brought weapons on to airlines in general, because we had the one here and the one in Tampa," he said. "We want to see if there is a nexus here."
Overall safety is the concern, he said.
"We are trying to figure out if there is a nexus to any hostile activity," he said. "Our agents here are looking into it."