A Washington state senator was arrested at the airport in Hong Kong and charged with possession of an unregistered firearm, his office said.
Sen. Jeff Wilson, R-Longview, was detained at Hong Kong International Airport on Friday night after he found a pistol in his carry-on bag and reported it to customs officials.
He was released on bail Sunday and faces a hearing Oct. 30.
I’m older than most of y’all, 70. In high school, it was not unusual to have the student parking lot filled with pickup trucks…most of which had shot guns on gun racks hanging on the back window.
It’s so weird to think about that now, how very normal it seemed at the time.
My older buddy tells me about how he used to bring his rifle on the school bus because he was on the high school shooting team. In and of itself, I don’t think anyone can say such a change is either good or bad, just that the culture is different, as it always is after as many years.
Same for me. I have been around guns most of my life and seeing them in trucks was very common. Hell, me and my friends all owned .22’s at a minimum and nobody cared when we wanted to go shooting. Where I grew up it was just… normal.
The big difference being about 5 billion more people on the planet since then and now.