Loaded firearms were found at checkpoints at the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport and at the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers airport, officials with the Transporation Security Administration said in a press release.
Two loaded guns were found at the Jackson airport as part of x-ray screenings of carry-on luggage by TSA officers. Both passengers, a man and a woman flying on separate flights, were arrested and their bags were confiscated.
In one case, a 62-year-old female from Jackson had a .32 revolver in her bags. In the other, a 42-year-old man from Yazoo City was found to also have a .32 caliber revolver stowed in carry-on luggage.
Earlier this month, TSA officers found a loaded .38 revolver carried by a 33-year-old Saucier man who was traveling from Gulfport to Dallas. He also was arrested and his bags confiscated.
None of the passengers were identified by name.
According to the TSA, guns, loaded or unloaded, are not permitted in carry-on luggage. Weapons can be carried in checked baggage on domestic flights if properly packaged and declared. They most be unloaded, packed and locked in a hard-sided case, separate from ammunition.
Airlines may have additional requirements, so passengers are encouraged to check with the airline directly before packing a firearm for travel.
Passengers found with firearms in carry-on luggage or improperly packed can face criminal charges and a civil penalty from TSA of up to $11,000.
Portland's plastic bag ban could be expanding to the suburbs, and an environmental group is leading the fight to ban the checkout grocery bags in several outlying cities.
Environment Oregon made stops in Tigard, Lake Oswego and Beaverton Tuesday urging those cities to ban the checkout-stand bags.
The group announced it has gathered thousands of petitions for a plastic bag ban in those cities.
Environmental Oregon claims Oregonians use over a billion plastic bags every year, with far too many ending up in our waterways endangering wildlife.
“Their digestive tracts become filled with plastic… they think they’re full and then they starve to death,” said Sarah Higginbotham, state director for Environment Oregon, about marine wildlife.
Higginbotham hopes others will follow Portland's example.
Portland banned the bags two years ago, but nearby,Welcome to Michael Kors Classic Tote Outlet online now. Beaverton shoppers had mixed opinions on whether the bags should stay or go.
“I use them because we have a cat. I use it for my cat litter, so I would miss it,” said shopper Barb Schwartz.
“You hear about the floating island of plastic in the Pacific and I don’t think it's a bad thing to limit our output of plastic,” said another shopper.
According the city of Portland, a year after its plastic bag ban went into effect the number of people using reusable bags jumped 300 percent.
A spokesman for the city of Beaverton says although it's not a priority, the city would be willing to consider a ban on plastic bags.
A chemist walks into a bar and tells the hipsters drinking there that their locally brewed organic ale is bad for the environment.
There’s no punch line: Beer is just one of the many beloved things that David Tyler, the Charles J. and M. Monteith Jacobs Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oregon, says aren’t as eco-friendly as we think.
And he’s fond of challenging conventional ideas about the environment—and for noting that even with all the green cred Portland gets, there’s a lot more that environmentally conscious hipsters could do to shrink their carbon footprint.
Tyler, age 60, headlines the next OMSI Science Pub. He spoke to WW about our consumption of oil, his research into degradable plastic bags, and the remarkable environmental damage inflicted by my favorite pair of jeans.
WW: You were quoted recently saying there are good environmental things about plastic bags. How can that be true?
David Tyler: They have the lowest carbon footprint, the lowest water use, and the lowest municipal waste [of any bagging option]. A plastic bag in many impact categories is better than a tote bag, it’s better than a paper bag.
There are environmental trade-offs when you pick this product over another one. When you use plastic bags rather than paper bags or cotton bags, there’s much less waste going into landfills. Where plastics fall down is that they don’t degrade, so they get into lakes and streams and harm wildlife.
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