... security as their top priority, last week a traveler carried a loaded derringer through checkpoints at the New Orleans airport. Once on the Southwest Airlines flight, the Mississippi businessman apparently remembered he had the gun, and turned it over to a flight attendant. He wasn't charged-an ... to keep catastrophes from occurring, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) should limit access to planes and investigate everybody and everything that goes onto them. Airlines however are gaining ground in securing their planes. Random security checks including pat downs and bag checks are...

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... through Mexico (they also frequent the Canadian border as well, but not as frequently as they do the Mexican border). These criminal groups have smuggled heroin and marijuana across the Southwest border and distributed them throughout the United States since the 1970's. In addition to distributing cocaine and methamphetamine in the West and Midwest, these Mexico based groups are now attempting ... principal traffickers of MDMA worldwide MDMA, primarily manufacture secretly in Western Europe, is smuggled into the United States by runners through commercial airlines, as well as through th...

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