{"id":4834,"date":"2011-01-27T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/01\/27\/in-news-from-country-formerly-known-as\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:07","slug":"in-news-from-country-formerly-known-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4834","title":{"rendered":"In News From The Country Formerly Known As Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18249,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\\\/news\\\/8812960.Airport_security_officials_brand_three_inch_toy_gun__firearm_&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260227073335\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\\\/news\\\/8812960.Airport_security_officials_brand_three_inch_toy_gun__firearm_\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 19:53:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 23:12:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 23:12:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/news\/8812960.Airport_security_officials_brand_three_inch_toy_gun__firearm_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian couple run afoul of airport security<\/a> at Gatwick Airport recently. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It may be three inches long and made of plastic \u2013 but that didn\u2019t stop a toy soldier\u2019s gun being branded a \u201cfirearm\u201d by zealous airport officials.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Lloyd and his wife bought the \u201csignaller crouching\u201d figurine during a recent visit to the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford Garrison.<\/p>\n<p>But when the box containing the figure passed through the scanning machine at Gatwick airport, security officials declared the tiny plastic rifle a \u201cfirearm\u201d.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gun.jpg.display.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gun.jpg.display.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;Mrs. Lloyd eventually had to ship the 3-inch toy gun home by mail. However, before she could do that, the Royal Mail insisted that it be scanned by the X-ray machine. The Lloyds did receive the figurine&#8217;s SA80 rifle about 5 days after they returned home to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>If these security officials ever get tired of working in the UK, I&#8217;m sure TSA has a place just waiting for them!<\/p>\n<p>H\/T Cam Edwards<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian couple run afoul of airport security at Gatwick Airport recently. It may be three inches long and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4467,403],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-airport-security","tag-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}