Loved ones of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing victims are feeling more hopeful in their quest for justice after U.S. officials take the accused Libyan bomb-maker into custody.

Fox Nation host Piers Morgan, whose friend was killed on board Pan Am flight 103, joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss the decades-long fight for justice in the deadliest terror attack on British soil.

"It was an absolute abomination, and the fact that only one person has been convicted of any offense connected to what was clearly a quite widespread conspiracy, is a complete disgrace," Morgan told the "Fox & Friends" Monday. "It's a failure of a justice system."

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"I'm relieved that it's come to some form of accountability and that somebody will now face another trial, but there were clearly more than just two of them involved anyway," Morgan continued. "And the fact it's taken this long now, the 30 years to bring the second one to any form of justice, is a scandal."

Morgan's friend, Jo Hudson, was a 22-year-old British nurse at the time she was killed. Hudson worked with Morgan's wife at the time. 

He recalled the moment he received the phone call from his wife to reveal the earth-shattering news of her passing. 

"They were all completely devastated that such a beautiful person had been murdered in such an appalling way," Morgan said. "To see now, decades later, the very slow wheels of justice finally, finally beginning to bear proper fruit, I think is probably to the family -- I can't speak for them -- but I certainly feel it myself, as someone who knew one of the victims, a profound sense of relief and exasperation has taken this long, frankly."

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U.S. officials announced the suspect, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, was detained on Sunday. 

"He is expected to make his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia," a Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed to Fox News. "Additional details, including information regarding public access to the initial appearance, will be forthcoming."

Pan Am flight 103 was traveling from London to New York on Dec. 21, 1988 when it blew up over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. 

Among the 190 Americans that died in the attack were 35 Syracuse University students, including 20-year-old Rick Minetti. His sister Kara Weipz joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss how the arrest is a major milestone in the quest for justice for her brother. 

"As for our government, it proves that over three decades they haven't stopped," Weipz told co-host Steve Doocy. "They have constantly kept this case open. The investigators have kept investigating, the FBI agents, the prosecutors have kept looking for evidence and working a case at the Justice Department, and the families haven't stopped."

"We have kept this in the forefront of six administrations, and yesterday, he was brought into U.S. custody, another person responsible for the murder of our loved ones," she continued. 

The suspect will face charges in a Washington, D.C., courtroom on Monday. 

He is only the second person to face justice for the attack. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing but released in 2009 with terminal cancer. 

While attacking America’s "toxic gun culture," the New York Times appeared to have inadvertently used the wrong photo while referring to AR-15s, as many Twitter users pointed out over the weekend.

The paper’s editorial board published an op-ed on Saturday titled "America’s Toxic Gun Culture," claiming that the prevalence of AR-15s among "right-wing" figures is causing a rise in political violence.

"The AR-15 has also become a potent talisman for right-wing politicians and many of their voters. That’s a particularly disturbing trend at a time when violent political rhetoric and actual political violence in the United States are rising," the New York Times editorial board wrote.

However, as many social media users pointed out, the photo used in the article showed rows of shotgun shells, ammo that would not be used in AR-15 weapons. 

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"Complains about AR15s...with a picture of shotgun shells. This is hysterical," Club for Growth senior analyst Andrew Follett wrote. 

"I find it amusing," Townhall.com columnist Kurt Schlichter responded to a tweet pointing out the shotgun shells reading, "I am once again begging the MSM journalists to take just a couple of basic firearms class to avoid dumba**ery like this."

Conservative writer A.G. Hamilton wrote, "Does the entire NYT really not have one editor that can review gun-related articles to notice something as basic as using a picture of shotgun shells for an article about AR-15s? Definitely inspires confidence about the contents of the article."

Republican consultant Nathan Wurtzel replied to the Times' negative comments about the AR-15 saying, "Nah. Just a really good gun for home defense. That's all."

BearingArms writer Ranjit Singh tweeted, "In 2020, Democrat candidate Beto O’Rourke openly pitched confiscation while the other candidates on the debate stage stood quietly in agreement. The Democrat debate audience wildly cheered at the proposal. And you wonder why GOP candidates pose with ARs in campaign ads?"

The Spectator contributing editor Stephen Miller simply tweeted an image of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was recently traded in exchange for WNBA player Brittney Griner. Bout was previously dubbed the "Merchant of Death" due to the impact of his weapons sales, but many liberal media pundits continued to praise the trade regardless.

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The Times editorial board continued to attack what they claim is an "unhealthy obsession" with the AR-15.

"A growing number of American civilians have an unhealthy obsession with ‘tactical culture’ and rifles like the AR-15. It’s a fringe movement among the 81 million American gun owners, but it is one of several alarming trends that have coincided with the increase in political violence in this country, along with the spread of far-right extremist groups, an explosion of anti-government sentiment and the embrace of deranged conspiracy theories by many Republican politicians. Understanding how these currents feed one another is crucial to understanding and reversing political violence and right-wing extremism," the piece read.

It continued, "Institutions and individuals — prominent politicians, for instance, and responsible gun owners — could do far more to insist that assault weapons have no place in public spaces, even if they are permitted in many states, where the open carry of firearms is legal. Public condemnation of such displays is a good place to start."

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New York Times columnist Gail Collins was previously criticized by The Reload's Stephen Gutowski in May over several inaccurate claims about AR-15 rifles.