What would happen if Person A got on a flight with a gun in their luggage, providing it was legal?

February 20, 2009 by admin · 24 Comments
Filed under: Law & Ethics 
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Dan asked:


If Person A lives in a country where it is legal to own a handgun, and got on an international flight to a country where gun ownership wasn’t legal (let’s say a US to UK flight) with a handgun in their luggage, what would happen (assuming they were unaware of gun laws in the UK and had no malicious intentions)?

Let me just say I am not planning on doing this myself, I am purely curious as surely the person could not be committing an offence at the point of departure?

Thanks.