Surely if the terrorist cannot make it onto the flight deck in the first placethen there is no need for the firearm anyway?
If the supposed steel doors get installed and are locked form the flight deck side without the flight attendants having the ability to open them then if a hijack did take place the plane could be landed safely.
This obviously relies on the crew keeping the door locked and not divng up the lfight deck no-matter what is going on 'up back'. If any pilots feels there are circumstances that the door would be opened then there should not be a firearm on deck as Uncle Binny has now just acquired it for his own use!!!!
AA SLF - we are not prepared to let it happen, but why people seem to see firearms as the be-all-and-end-all of the debate beats me!
Someone mentioned earlier about allowing all passengers to carry firearms on board and that way make anyone who has any inclination of taking the plane over think twice about it first. How long will it take a group to realise that all they have to do is check in a reasonable sized group to be to overpower the pax anyway - after all they have just legitimately checked in a large amount of firepower as cabin luggage!!
Get the flight deck physically secured from forced entry and this whole argument dies in the water!!!!
Julian.