REGULATIONS REGARDING WEAPONS ON AIRPLANES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00882R000100040054-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: January 5, 1955
• Content Type: MF

CEIAS FR!$ 9QI02 : CIA-RDP59-00882R000100040054-5
5 January 1955
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Houston
SU33JECT : Regulations Regarding Weapons on Airplanes
1. With reference to your request for information concerning
CAA rules regarding weapons on airplanes, it appears that there
are none. Nor does the CAB regulate on the subject.
2. At the suggestion of a CAA official, I have obtained a
copy of General Rule 14 and a portion of General Rule 16 of the
Air Traffic Conference of America, both of which were cited to
,me as bearing on the question. The Rules of course are not
criminal law but merely the internal regulations of the indus-
try. In any event, their application to the point is limited
at best. General Rule 14 reserves to each participating carrier
the right to refuse transport or to remove any passenger "whose
status, age, or mental or physical condition is such, in the
opinion of the carrier, as to . . . make such refusal or re-
moval necessary to the reasonable safety or comfort of other
passengers" or "to involve any unusual hazard or risk to him-
self or to other persons" or to property. It would seem that
an. arms-bearing individual could be denied transport under this
Rule only if it could be considered that his "status" was suf-
ficiently effected by the fact of his bearing arms, a contention
which would appear quite questionable.
3. General Rule 16 requires each participating carrier
to refuse to accept for transportation as baggage, assembled
firearms or explosives unless advance arrangements have been
made.
1i. Local law concerning the bearing of firearms or con-
cealed weapons presumably would be applicable to the carrying of
firearms on aircraft, at least at the place of boarding the air-
craft, in the absence of a provision to the contrary.
Assistant General Counsel
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