Bureaucrat Brainfart of the Week

From my good ethernet buddies at PIG:

Bureaucrat Brainfart of the Week:

By now, you’ve all heard about the airline pilot who, accidentially, discharged his cockpit-legal firearm during a flight. What you probably haven’t heard is the rest of the story, the part where the Draconian Department of Homeland Stupidity chickens come home to roost.
Contrary to prevailing myth, this wasn’t the pilot’s fault:
‘...Rather than carry the weapon on their person at all times, pilots must lock it up before opening the cockpit door, meaning pilots handle the gun as many as 10 times per flight, the association estimates. Pilots who have completed training to become federal flight deck officers (FFDOs) and carry weapons must use a holster used primarily as a home child-safety lock. A padlock is inserted through the holster and trigger guard, but, if inserted backward, it can trigger the gun, pilots say...’
‘..."The pilot has to take his gun off and lock it up before he leaves the cockpit, so he was trying to secure the gun in preparation for landing, while he was trying to fly the airplane, too," said David Mackett, president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance. "In the process of doing that, the padlock that is required to be inserted into the holster pulled the trigger and caused the gun to discharge."..."It's a completely unsafe system unless it's used in a static environment — in a bedroom with good light. But to try to balance a gun on your lap and padlock it while flying an airplane 300 miles an hour, sometimes in the dark, is not secure," Mr. Mackett said...’
The APSA tried to reason with the Transportation (In) Security Administration, citing a plan advocated by the Federal Air Marshal Service, but the bureaucrats were too busy strip searching a 90 year old woman and couldn’t be bothered.