What's wrong with this story?

From Fox News, about a shooting on an Amtrak train. Quote:

"Magnus said the Counter Narcotics Alliance, a task force comprised of local and federal law enforcement agencies, boarded a New Orleans-bound Amtrak train stopped at a station in downtown Tucson around 8 a.m. to do a routine check for illegal guns, drugs, money, and other items. "

The wording of that sentence really sends chills up my spine. Bad writing? Or what?

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Longpatrol · 31-35, M

The fact that they need to do routine checks means the situation vis a vis drug proliferation and organised crime has probably gone quite out of hand.

mikeylyksit · 41-45, M

@Longpatrol That's not the way I see it. It points to a procedural issue somewhere. Imagine if armed feds routinely raided loaded airplanes looking for drugs, weapons, cash, etc...

If it's a necessity to "routinely" raid Amtrak, then...are there ZERO precautions used to prevent people from bringing drugs, weapons, etc...on to the trains?

Or do they deliberately not check passengers entering the trains so that the armed feds can raid it later?

Either way, does not compute...

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

@mikeylyksit They would have to have a good reason to have done it in the very first raid(and are warrants required?), perhaps the reason still stands?

mikeylyksit · 41-45, M

@Longpatrol Warrants? I think you time-warped back to the 50s. The 1850s, that is.
Considering that there were good guys and bad guys shot, I guess you could say (after-the-fact) that the armed feds had good reason to invade the passenger car of the amtrak.

But that leads to the obvious question....

How do drugs, weapons, etc...get on the train in the first place? As I wrote before, can you imagine this raid happening on a loaded commercial passenger jet?