President Barack Obama's administration, without warning, has quietly cut funding for the Armed Pilots Program, according to Washington news reports.
"After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings. Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology. The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage in field inspections of pilots."
Just freaking great.
Once again, this is not the "change" that most Americans signed on for. Read the entire story, then pass it on.
h/t to Sebastian
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