fbi criminal background check. 27 states don t even check to see if someone is banned by federal law from carrying a gun. unlike police officers, the requirements to become a licensed armed guard across the u.s. can be so lax, in kentucky, you can become an armed guard simply by arming yourself and calling yourself one. there s no training requirement. there s no licensing requirement. a security company simply needs a business license. just like the florist down the street has. but instead of selling flowers, they re selling yard service. reporter: security industry experts run a security guard training school. they blame security firms more interested in making money than paying for proper training. they need warm bodies to put on the street to make money by the hour. they don t want to have to go through all of the training
reporting, finds the armed security guard industry is kind of like the wild west when it comes to oversight. you can become an armed guard in 15 states with no firearms training. nine states don t bother to run an fbi criminal background check. 27 states don t even check to see if someone is banned by federal law from carrying a gun. unlike police officers, the requirements to become a licensed armed guard across the u.s. can be so lax. in kentucky you can become an armed guard simply by arming yourself and calling yourself one. there s no training requirement, no licensing requirement. a security company simply needs a business license. just like the florist down the street has. but instead of selling flowers, they re selling guard service. reporter: security industry veterans pat alexander and steve run a security guard training school. they blame security firms more interested in making money than
license. if you want to prepare taxes for families charging them on average $300 for 30 minutes of work that s not very difficult, signing the most important document they sign all year, there s no training requirement, there s no licensing. it s literally the wild west in every state other than four. so you re talking about $300 and $400 fees for a half hour worth of work. that s a $600 to $800 an hour level. even cpas don t charge that. that s right. the average $100,000 a year family, pays between $150 and $200 to have their taxes done with itemization from a trained certified accountant. the average single mother working at walmart making $19,000 a year raising two kids, goes into one of these places with a w-2, no itemization and will come out $300. that s a lot of money for me to waste in 30 minutes. i if you re making $18,000 a yore
separate from the right to keep and bear arms. what metcalf was talking about the training requirement for a permit in illinois. it was a pretty narrow column. illinois is a state that is forced to allow carry rights. they have set up a system that is very hard, takes a hot of training, a lot of time. other states make it simple, take a short class. that s the issue, how long it takes to get carry permits. that s specific to that. it s not about what types of gun you re going to carry or any type of assault weapons ban. i listen to the details both of you lay out. i read the column, chris, what this comes down to is the power of social media. and it got what it wanted. it s the age we live in now. it s a 24/7 interconnected world where if you, you know, if you stir up the pot, you re going to get a lot of stings. you can start revolutions and bring down editors. absolutely. it s the reality of the day and age we live in. but listen, in this case, i would say it s isolated becau
this light bulb. further deepening the tragedy, investigators discovered the nose gear had been down the whole time. it should be noted that planes can still land safely with just the main landing gear like this. but aviation experts say the crew followed the correct procedure. pilots always carry reserve fuel so there was not a pressing time criticality we have to land now. if they land with the nose gear up it s going to cause damage to it. it s going to be out of service for a period of time. there s going to be an investigation. out of this 1972 tragedy came crew resource management, a training requirement that now ensures that someone must always monitor the airplane flight path. if there is a problem today, that crew resource manager means that the captain has to designate someone to stay in control of the plane while they try to resolve the problem, whether it s in the cockpit or in the cabin.