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When the United States Senate passed the Homeland Security legislation on Tuesday, Nov. 19, it included legislation that will make it possible for airline pilots to carry firearms on the flight deck if they choose to do so.

This is a great victory for those who were involved in the fight, including OFCC PAC Chairman Jim Irvine, an American Airlines pilot.

The legislation does not allow individual airlines to "opt-out" of the program, leaving the decision entirely up to the pilots who qualify for the program.

Ironically, while anti-gun extremists tried to suggest that passengers would be at risk if pilots could carry, law-makers instead exempted cargo pilots (who have no passengers to protect) from the program.

Tennessee's Eight Successful Years of CCW; Anti's STILL Warning of ''Wild, Wild West"

The State of Tennessee passed its shall-issue CCW law in 1994, and the program has been a rousing success. According to state, over 130,000 permits have been issued in the past 8 years, violent crime has fallen, and criminal incidents involving permit holders are virtually nonexistent, and unrelated to their status as a permit holder.

The same worn-out warnings we're hearing from the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence in 2002 were heard in Tennessee in 1994. But their predictions did not come to pass. Even when a bank robbers vs. police gun fight spilled into the streets in posh Nashville suburb of Brentwood last Spring, the eleven permit-holders who were on hand as witnesses all acted as per their training, letting law enforcement do it's job, and staying out of the fight because they did not determine their own lives were at risk.

So when Rep. Ben West, a Tennessee Democrat, announced his proposal to relax restrictions on the permit law in Tennessee this week, what do you suppose the anti's started screaming?

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