"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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Peter, the pilots need to go through exactly the same firearms
training as air marshals to be allowed to carry. The fact that the
public doesn't know that is a failure of PR, not the rules.



I was thinking of private pilots. People do know about the commercial
pilots and their training.

Regarding the state laws: as a private individual I do not have the support
structure of an airline. Therefore, I must carry any weapon to and from the
plane in any state I visit. Being as I already have too much to carry, I do
not want to have to carry some special case or anything of the sort, I would
just want to be able to carry the weapon on my belt like my cell phone
(yikes, between the phone, av radio, ham radio, multi-tool, etc. my belt is
filling up. Soon I will need LBE to go anywhere). At present, this is a
problem.