{"id":80944,"date":"2026-11-05T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/amtrak-workers-union-denounces-plan-to-let-passengers-bring-guns-on-trains-sheer-lunacy\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:55:08","slug":"amtrak-workers-union-denounces-plan-to-let-passengers-bring-guns-on-trains-sheer-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/amtrak-workers-union-denounces-plan-to-let-passengers-bring-guns-on-trains-sheer-lunacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak workers\u2019 union denounces plan to let passengers bring guns on trains: \u2018Sheer lunacy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New policy would permit passengers to take firearms to their seats in lockboxes on 1,500 trains a day across the US<\/p>\n<p>The Transport Workers Union, which represents 360 onboard service workers at national passenger rail operator Amtrak, has lambasted the planned implementation of a new policy that would permit passengers to bring their guns on its US intercity trains.<\/p>\n<p>The forthcoming protocols will allow people to carry on firearms in personal lock boxes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/nov\/05\/amtrak-workers-union-passengers-guns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New policy would permit passengers to take firearms to their seats in lockboxes on 1,500 trains a day across the US The Transport Workers Union, which represents 360 onboard service workers at national passenger rail operator Amtrak, has lambasted the planned implementation of a new policy that would permit passengers to bring their guns on &#8230; <a title=\"Amtrak workers\u2019 union denounces plan to let passengers bring guns on trains: \u2018Sheer lunacy\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/amtrak-workers-union-denounces-plan-to-let-passengers-bring-guns-on-trains-sheer-lunacy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Amtrak workers\u2019 union denounces plan to let passengers bring guns on trains: \u2018Sheer lunacy\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}