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Booth said he decided to embark on this project after the TSA introduced body scanners, which he believes violate travelers' privacy.
He told me, "People who understand security understand that the current screening procedures exist primarily to put passengers at ease - 'security theater,' if you will. They also know that, given enough time, a persistent attacker will succeed to some degree."
Booth was able to shoot pocket change out of his gun with enough power to blow a hole through Sheetrock.
Here is a video detailing the gun's construction and functionality:
In addition to creating BLUNDERBUSiness, Booth made several other deadly weapons - also using common items purchased in airport stores.
He sent me some captioned photos of his creations. (My personal favorite is the "Adorable Blowgun.")
Some have wearily hypothesized that Booth's creations could only prompt the TSA to make airport security more strict. On my previous BLUNDERBUSiness article, one reader commented, "Pretty cool, but knowing the government they'll now ban all of those items."
But Booth claims his project should have the opposite effect. He said, "I hope it helps people understand that trying to ban everything is simplynot going to keep people safe at the end of the day."
"If we're trying stop a terrorist threat at the airport, it's already too late," he said. "And if you're going to go through all that trouble getting into the terminal, why is all this stuff available in the terminal? I think people have kind of been suspecting that the type of things I've built are possible. I just don't think anyone's ever taken the time to do it."
"...since this information falls under the realm of common sense, I will be speaking about it publicly. Maybe my expectations are too high, but I don't think it should be that easy to build an explosive device out of items purchased in an airport. Travelers - as both consumers and taxpayers - deserve to know this information. If that's a problem, please let me know immediately.
My ultimate goal as a researcher is to work with the TSA to improve our overall security posture. With that in mind, my plan is to launch this website tomorrow at 5pm (EST) unless I hear from someone between now and then. Here's where to contact me: [redacted] or reply to this email."After over 10 hours with no response from a government agent, Booth decided to reach out to the TSA again, this time by phone.
He said, "I didn't catch his name, but the person I spoke with in the TSA's general contact center knew about the email as well as its contents - 'Yeah... the web address with the password.' When I asked for his thoughts on the content, he responded with 'I don't know. We can't access the internet here.'"
The employee instructed Booth to forward his email to the TSA's Strategic Communications and Public Affairs office. He never received a response.
"And that was it," Booth said. " I'll leave it to you to decide whether or not these reports were being taken seriously."
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Kristin Tate is a writer and commentator. She was trained in journalism by John Stossel at the Fox Business Network. Dedicated to fearless reporting, Tate regularly works on undercover stings with journalist James O'Keefe to reveal government waste, abuse, and fraud. Tate was a Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) Chapter President and Founder in Boston. She will continue to fight tirelessly for individual liberty and free markets through reporting and new media.
1. Future Shock (Alvin Toffler, 1970) postulated that the rate of technological change would increase faster and faster until society was overwhelmed and became unable to deal with it. Here, we have someone building weapons from everyday items. There is no way to completely eliminate everything that is potentially dangerous. We should not even try - instead, we must find the way to live with ourselves (see #2).
2. The most effective way to eliminate the threat of airplane and airport attacks is to eliminate the psychopaths in power who deliberately attack their own people. The list of self-inflicted false flag attacks goes on and on, the 'attacks' are increasing in rapidity - even this is a corollary of Future Shock.
9/11, Sandy Hoax, the recent LAX hoax of an attack by Paul Anthony Ciancia (anagram for "U can't nail CIA phony") - each and every one could have been prevented by the simple act of having our psychopaths in prison instead of in the White House and Pentagon and CIA headquarters directing these crimes, producing these horrible tragedies and faux tragedies and lies, all for the purpose of propping up the failing American Empire.