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I flew to FLL today to spend a few days in the Keys, and declared a firearm at RDU. She told me that at FLL, the bag would not arrive on the carrousel, I'd have to go to the service desk. Hadn't seen that before. Got to service desk at FLL, she escorted me to another place where an officer and a Delta agent were waiting for me. Bag came out all tied up in those plasti-cuffs. Officer told me that because of an "incident" previously, he would need to escort me out of the terminal, and he didn't hand over the bag until we were outside. Initially I thought it was for the Florida school shooting in that county, but on the way out, I remembered the incident. The murderer arrived, retrieved bag with gun, went into bathroom, came out shooting. Cop confirmed that's what this was all about. He seemed OK with me bringing the gun, even some supportive small talk.

Later I read up on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale_airport_shooting

Guy was in the same room as I was, and used the same gun I brought with me, a Walther PPS. I think about how people were arriving, retrieving bags just as I was today, and five people were killed and lying in blood on the floor where my family and I were standing. Just a little creepy, I guess, like the time I stood in the lobby of that hotel in Kansas City where 114 people died when the skywalks collapsed, and imagined the horror of that moment.

The FLL shooter was apprehended within 60 seconds of his first shot. Just shows how you go from normal to never-normal-again so quickly.
 
Yep. Baggage claim is an unsecured area and still vulnerable to attack. That's about the time the long guns came out at CLT. I was talking to one of the officers, the long guns are not for the sterile area behind the checkpoints. They are for the unsecured public areas like baggage claim and ticketing.
 
I flew CLT to FLL on 10/26. The bag went to the little office, but I wasn't escorted out or anything. I just had to show ID and was on my way.
 
Is that airport still a little dinky one large room affair? My parents used to live there but I've not been back since 1977.
 
MostWanted said:
I flew to FLL today to spend a few days in the Keys, and declared a firearm at RDU. She told me that at FLL, the bag would not arrive on the carrousel, I'd have to go to the service desk. Hadn't seen that before. Got to service desk at FLL, she escorted me to another place where an officer and a Delta agent were waiting for me. Bag came out all tied up in those plasti-cuffs. Officer told me that because of an "incident" previously, he would need to escort me out of the terminal, and he didn't hand over the bag until we were outside. Initially I thought it was for the Florida school shooting in that county, but on the way out, I remembered the incident. The murderer arrived, retrieved bag with gun, went into bathroom, came out shooting. Cop confirmed that's what this was all about. He seemed OK with me bringing the gun, even some supportive small talk.

Later I read up on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale_airport_shooting

Guy was in the same room as I was, and used the same gun I brought with me, a Walther PPS. I think about how people were arriving, retrieving bags just as I was today, and five people were killed and lying in blood on the floor where my family and I were standing. Just a little creepy, I guess, like the time I stood in the lobby of that hotel in Kansas City where 114 people died when the skywalks collapsed, and imagined the horror of that moment.

The FLL shooter was apprehended within 60 seconds of his first shot. Just shows how you go from normal to never-normal-again so quickly.
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My sister missed being there for the shooting by about 30 minutes. Her flight was late.
 
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