The Airline Pilots Security Alliance has lobbied long and hard to allow airline pilots to carry guns. The legislation has passed, but now the bureaucracy is destroying implementation.
In an attempt to discourage volunteers, and disqualify pilots, TSA requires psychiatric interviews, tests and observations, and onerous redundant background investigations of pilots who have already passed the required layers of screening repeatedly to fly multimillion-dollar airliners. Our own government admits these same aircraft in the wrong hands are weapons of mass destruction.