"Gal" Friday! Shanna McLaughlin

Twenty-six-year-old Shanna McLaughlin, perhaps better known to many as Playboy Playmate of the Month (July 2010), was arrested at Orlando International Airport this week and charged with carrying a firearm in a place prohibited by law.

Police were contacted after a .45 caliber revolver loaded with six hollow-point bullets, was found in her luggage. McLaughlin claimed that the weapon belonged to a boyfriend, but she also told the TSA stormtrooper that she has a concealed weapons permit, which he then verified.

Let me pause for a brief segue: The phrase "right of the people to keep and bear Arms" was first used in the United States Bill of Rights (and became law as the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States). While there is no federal law specifically addressing the issuance of concealed carry permits, 49 states have passed laws allowing citizens to carry certain concealed firearms in public, either without a permit or after obtaining a permit from state or local law enforcement.

The blonde bombshell has been charged with a crime, after what appears to have been an oversight and although she is currently free on bail, I'm wondering why a better solution couldn't have been reached. Why not simply impound the weapon? Does anyone in this country care about the increasing loss of our freedoms, not to mention the 4th Amendment right to be secure in your person, house, papers and effects, against unreasonable search and seizure, which is not supposed to be violated? This poor girl was disarmed, by goons employed by THE government (no longer OUR government) and left defenseless. It's a wonder the twisted shits didn't strip search her too. Maybe they didn't notice how hot she is? I'm inducting her into the Catacombs as this weeks official "gal" Friday pick, and hoping that she will consider taking refuge here, when they start asking us for our papers on neighborhood street corners, too.