U.S. governors urge Turks and Caicos to release Americans as Florida woman becomes 5th tourist arrested for ammo in luggage

How about the governors suggest that their residents don't travel internationally with ammunition?

How arrogant of those American governers to assume they can just dictate how other countries deal with people smuggling weapons into their country (even if those people claim to have done it as a casual accident).

fuck that, its not hard to check your luggage before traveling.

Stop throwing the weight of the US government behind trying to protect assholes.

Would America just release tourists who broke their laws?

A prison sentence doesn't make sense in these cases, since there is no risk of repeat offenses and therefore no rehabilitation required.

Just give them a 4 digit large fine and maybe deport them, unless you have a non-functioning justice system focused on cruelty, then give them a significant prison sentence.

I say, keep them an extra week, and let the US gov pay the fine for not noticing on departure.

Yeah, no.

It seems that these Americans have discovered that they can't just ignore the rule of law in other countries.

Let them deal with the consequences. Let them lose that American exceptionalism.

Nobody gets a free pass for breaking laws in America, so these Americans shouldn't get a free pass for breaking laws in other countries.

They should be locked up, maximum sentence. American idiotic laws don't apply, they are just like everyone else. Criminals that broke the law and smuggled ammo in. Ignorance is not an excuse of the law, American justice system loves that phrase.

Well, if people travel into a foreign country and don't even care about the laws of said country (not in detail, just reading the governmental warnings would have been sufficient), they deserve what happens.

Imagine I would travel to the US and would bring along some Kinder surprise eggs by mistake. Would those governors show mercy to me? I don't think so.

Americans complaining about the detention: "My countries' laws are fine and the very standard of reason. All of you other countries should chill out!"

Jfc you shouldn't have ammo in luggage. Not surprised they were arrestex6

Does anybody know if these guys have oil?

If I were one of them, the NRA would be the last group I'd want advocating for my release...

Those fools are trying to contain Florida Woman? Good luck, you poor bastards.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Three U.S. governors this week asked Turks and Caicos to show mercy to Americans arrested on the islands as a Florida woman became the fifth U.S. tourist to be charged with ammunition possession.

The lawmakers' plea came as the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police confirmed yet another American, 45-year-old Sharitta Shinise Grier of Orlando, Florida, was charged with one count of ammunition possession after two rounds were allegedly discovered in her luggage on Monday during a routine search at Howard Hamilton International Airport.

The National Rifle Association on Thursday urged the U.S. State Department to "use every means necessary to return U.S. citizens home to America."

That changed in February when a court order required even tourists to potentially face mandatory prison time in addition to paying a fine.

TSA confirmed to CBS News its officers missed the four rounds of hunting ammo in Watson's carry-on when he and his wife departed from Oklahoma City in April.

"To me, the solution here is to put more technology assists available to them," Pekosek told CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave, pointing to software that would be able to identify rounds of ammunition, pieces of firearms and various knives.

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Happened in the Philippines around 6-8 years ago, nefarious airport security would intentionally put ammo in a victims luggage with the intention of shaking them for bribe. It lead travellers to wrap their luggage in plastic prior to departure. As far as I know they targeted locals I don't remember foreign victims.

Ah I love this thread, the duality of Lemmy

Hicks:

"I have two bags I use whenever I am going outside my family land, sorry I missed a shell or two from the last time I went huntin, so what, I'm just an American"

Others:

"FUCK AROUND FIND OUT!!! One ammo? That's like 30 pounds of heroin, I hope you go to prison you dumb motherfucker"

fuck them. keep them locked up forever. fafo and they'll learn americans aren't the centre of the world.

One of the most useful Vietnam-style traps requires exactly one shot as a hard to get component.

The weird thing is that it's not like loose ammo is dangerous. It doesn't just "go off".

Four rounds of ammo? Give them a slap on the wrist and send them home. If it was a box of ammo I'd feel differently. How you get ammo in the luggage is beyond me, but at 4 it was obviously an accident, they are obviously not trying to smuggle weapons in at that point.

I had assumed airport agents put the ammunition in the luggage to get bribes.