They had me excluded interviewed, to the point of missing a flight, because they found a phillips screwdriver bit (no screw driver) in my back back. Even reminding them that airlines exclusively do not use these screws in anything inside the cabin of importance, had no effect. I totally agree with your “comically incompetent” phrasing.
I hate how this article focuses solely on her stupidly and completely glosses over the glaring failure of TSA to prevent this from happening in the first place. Bottle of water is treated like a WMD, but a pistol? Nah, good to go. 'Murica…
Also, I low-key think she deserves some punishment for having such a tacky gold plated 1911 in the first place…
The bullets had a very specific heath insurance mantra inscribed on them, “deny, defend, depose”. Highly unlikely it was a random occurrence. I really believe the shooter was wronged somehow, but UHC. Maybe they denied a claim that lead to the death of a loved one, etc.
You have to declare it to fly like that in the US, though. So either she did and TSA didn’t care, it she didn’t and they blundered.