{"id":8375,"date":"2022-03-09T15:31:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2022-03-09T11:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:31:29","slug":"tsa-finds-loaded-gun-in-california-lawmakers-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8375","title":{"rendered":"TSA Finds Loaded Gun in California Lawmaker\u2019s Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Brock Johnson<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) found a loaded pistol in the bag of California Assemblymember Jim Cooper\u2019s luggage prompting them to call the Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Office who help Cooper\u2019s firearm until he returned from his trip.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooper\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/07\/jim-cooper-airport-loaded-gun-00014845\">informed POLITICO<\/a> that Cooper, a retired law enforcement officer, had accidentally brought a bag that had contained a loaded firearm to airport security. He declined to comment on the situation in an interview outside the Assembly chambers but he stressed that as a retired law enforcement officer, he was within his rights to carry a firearm. While California\u2019s penal code makes it unlawful for people to carry a firearm within secure areas of an airport, it does make an allowance for retired police officers with a concealed carry permit but still bans them from bringing a firearm onto a plane.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooper\u2019s mistake could be costly for his political image as he is running for the Sacramento Sheriff. This incident with TSA is not a good look for Cooper\u2019s image as people may question his judgment as most people don\u2019t forget that they have a loaded gun in their bag especially when they are going on a plane. It also doesn\u2019t help him that there are already concerns about the security and storage of firearms by law enforcement officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo Cred: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/local\/sacramento\/sacramento-county-sheriff-candidate-stopped-by-sheriffs-deputies-with-loaded-gun\/103-b0549cec-6ee9-4114-a358-dc7836cd8fe4\">Office of Jim Cooper\/ ABC 10 Sacramento<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Brock Johnson Last week the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) found a loaded pistol in the bag of California Assemblymember Jim Cooper\u2019s luggage prompting them to call the Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Office who help Cooper\u2019s firearm until he returned from his trip.\u00a0 Cooper\u2019s office informed POLITICO that Cooper, a retired law enforcement officer, had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - 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