> It's perfectly legal to travel, even by airplane, with a firearm. I tend to avoid it because it's such a pain in the posterior, but I don't fly a lot anyway. Professional athletes, however, do fly a good bit, especially during the season. Half of their games are away, and it's not like high school football, where your opponent is just a couple of hours away by bus. > The Carolina Panthers aren't taking a bus to play the LA Rams, after all. > So, they fly, and for any of them looking to be armed while doing so--something professional athletes might want to consider--they have to declare their firearm at the airline counter. > And one NFL player got arrested when he did that. >> Green Bay Packers player Rasheed Walker was arrested at LaGuardia Airport Friday morning after he tried to check a bag that contained a handgun and ammunition, prosecutors said. >> The 25-year-old offensive lineman was taken into custody just before 11 a.m. after telling a Delta Air Lines employee that his luggage contained a locked box holding his 9mm Glock pistol, according to a criminal complaint. >> Port Authority police were alerted and responded to Terminal C, where they searched his bag and found the firearm and 36 rounds of ammo secured in the locked case. > In other words, Walker was trying to comply with the law, but New York's draconian gun regulations came into play, and he got arrested instead.