who was on the phone with my colleague, alex, a little bit earlier. i want to bring him back into the conversation, jim, and as we learn more details about what is taking place in the airport there, i just kind of want to walk through, first and foremost, what we expect happened there on the ground there. we are learning from a producer that alex just interviewed that this was actually a passenger s gun. his bag was being searched at a tsa, from my understanding, what we learned from this producer and we re going to be getting that producer back on, and when they learned this gun was actually in the bag, it seems as if the passenger reached for the gun, which obviously was loaded, and it was an accidental discharge. correct me, jim, but you can t be walking through as a regular old passenger a loaded gun in your carryon. right. you re not allowed to carry a loaded gun into the cabin of an aircraft unless you re a, you know, federal agent or sky marshal or police officer who s authori
seriously, as it should be. for someone to bring a firearm to the airport, unfortunately, it does happen. but for the actions of reaching for that gun, particularly in resulting with a discharge, and then disappearing, that elevates it to a new level, and this is going to take some time to sort through. it does indicate that tsa had located the gun. they knew that it was there and were in the process of confiscating it, so the tsa portion of the security system worked. but the actions from that point on, i think, will be studied and investigated in great depth but this is going to take a while to sort out. what does it take for an airport to go on lockdown, john, and how can airport officials, authorities, be so certain so
discover the gun, to make sure it doesn t get to the secure side, doesn t get on an aircraft. and then, in a case where they find a gun, immediately law enforcement is called in. i ve traveled four times already this week. there s almost always a law enforcement official near a checkpoint. yeah. jay blackman, thank you. thank you for getting to an area in which your reception was better, first of all. thank you for providing us with all this information as this news was developing. thankfully, the atlanta airport has given the all-clear. flights are resuming. passengers returning to where they were going. of course, after panic ensued at that airport just about an hour and 15 minutes ago when a shot rang out. it was subsequently noted as an accidental discharge although they are still searching for the individual that brought that loaded gun to that airport. we re going to continue to follow this story, so i want to thank my guests, jay, jim, john, and kathy as well, as this thing de
or maybe they wanted to flee. sometimes people have guns illegally. they don t know you re going to discover it, and they can t otherwise legally possess a gun, like a convicted felon, for example. and if you you know, as a cop and an agent my whole life, it s often happens when you discover contraband, guns, narcotics, victims, and the people know you just discovered it, that s the time they want to flee or fight because they know you know. and so, sometimes i m not saying that s what happened here. it could be just a citizen that had an accidental discharge. airport police said, everybody clear out and he cleared out too. that might not have been the best decision for him or he might have should have stayed there, but he might have got scared, he might have cleared out with the other passengers. isn t it the tsa s responsibility isn t it the security professionals responsibility, the folks that are searching that bag, isn t that isn t this what they re trained for, to make
this bag to be searched. the bag was then subsequently opened where the gun was discovered inside the bag. now, my assumption is from what i heard this was a carry-on bag. the passenger then reached for the gun, jay, is that accurate? it sounds like the passenger grabbed the weapon and the weapon went off. the passenger so, do we know why, jay, the passenger grabbed the weapon? are we learning anything about that? i just now received a statement. it sounds like there was an accidental discharge, passengers evacuated out through the public areas. the law enforcement has locked down the main gates and they are not allowing anyone in or out. the law enforcement officials have a photograph of the passenger and are actively searching for that passenger. got it. okay, so, this is a new development, jay, and if you could actually forward that