Coffee, Tea—or Bullets at 30,000 Feet

Aviation sources tell Time that more than 4,000 pilots are authorized to carry guns, and each day they fly armed on more flights than do air marshals. The gun-toting pilots, who fly unidentified, now constitute the fourth-largest federal law-enforcement group in the U.S. Pilots in the program, as well as the Transportation Security Administration (tsa), which runs it, claim it has been a big success.

In the past two years, reports Time, the only problem has been the arrest of a single pilot who may have shown up for work drunk.

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