Airport Popo got me

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Thats pretty lame, considering I left one of my switchblade knives in my carry on, and went thru with no problem. It was an accident. But, isn't that the kind of stuff they try to keep off planes?

I called TSA, and reported the security breech when I got to my destination and unloaded my carry on.. and went "omg..." Stayed anonymous, of course. It was an accident, I'm not trying to get on a no-fly list. I just found the thought a bit scary, that someone who might be able to do that knowingly and say take a flight crew hostage or something.

Yet, here they are messing with you about a inert magazine.. ugh..
 
My wife accidentally carried her Kershaw on and realized after she was at the gate. Kept it hidden and mailed it back after arriving (no checked luggage).

It seems a lot of people have a similar story.
 
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Originally Posted by Warp:
It is a magazine for a gun, which is strictly prohibited on aircraft.
I will ask again, where is that written?

TSA says "gun parts". Is a removable magazine a gun part and if so where is that written down?

Are scopes gun parts? I've flown with scopes many times, packed into my carry on so they wouldn't get bumped around. Are slings gun parts? Where is any of this defined? Or is TSA just making it up as they go?

I'd wager it's the highlighted portion. TSA had me surrender a milt sparks holster in shark hide because it was a 'gun part'. I didn't have time to argue if I wanted to meet my client that evening. :cuss:
 
I haven't been in a airport since 1980. I normally drive. It's safer to carry then. I drive my class b van and,I have no problem at all. My van is a Roadtrek on a Chevy chassis.
 
+1 - I drive whenever feasible carrying when there is receprocity. Unless I have to go into or cross one of the Commie Libitard states like Nazifornia or NJ.

I don't like being a sheeple...
 
Look at the TSA confiscated knife auctions on Flea Bay.

TSA are such thieves.
Glad to hear your $10 swiss army knife is that valuable. I'll jump on ebay right now and pay top dollar for it. :rolleyes:

But really, AZ lets you turn around and do whatever you want with the knife, just not take it past the check point and all without involving LEOs. I'd hardly call that a nazi regime. If it was that valuable, you probably wouldn't have surrendered it to begin with and the state ends up with possession in the end anyway, not the TSA.
 
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I was flying on business from Tulsa to New Jersey in February 2002, and a fellow traveler, a young German fellow with a backpack, was being given the third degree by security for having a folding church key can/bottle opener. I went on through security and stopped in at the gift/souvenir/magazine/book shop further out on the concourse. What do you think I found in the shop? Yeah, a gold-plated church key with an Oklahoma seal on it.

I went down to the security check point, asked for the person in charge, and asked him to come with me. I took him into the shop and just pointed. He had the good grace to blush and went back to the check point where he had his people let the German kid go. I don't know if they went into the souvenir shop to confiscate all the church keys on the hooks.

ECS
 
A few years ago one of our exchange students was going through security for her flight back to Germany. She had packed a bunch of empty .223, 9MM, .357, 12 gauge, and probably more cases I can't recall, along with recovered bullets she had dug out of the sand, into her carry-on luggage. TSA had a real hissy fit over that one. They finally let her go after confiscating the whole mess and giving it to me. I mailed it to her in a box with other stuff. Put "misc. metal trinkets" on the shipping papers and no one ever said a word about it.
 
Have we had another airplane into a building in the last ten years?

Effectiveness or dumb luck?
We stopped having aircraft flying into buildings on 9/11. The terrorists exploited a hole in system which was closed by those brave folks on flight 19. That hole remains closed.

I would wager that even if you were to smuggle a handgun on board an aircraft, your chances of doing the same thing as the 9/11 hijackers remains nil, because the passengers won't let you. Meanwhile, for some inexplicable reason, we all continue to tolerate TSA.

For more about TSA idiocy, go here. http://www.theatlantic.com/national...he-first-time-the-tsa-meets-resistance/65390/
 
I have all the sympathy in the world for people that legitimately forget questionable items in their luggage - I don't think they deserve to be detained or arrested.
However, given how "strict" the security environment is at airports, why aren't people checking and re-checking their stuff before arriving at the checkpoint? A bit of extra scrutiny of one's bags ahead of time can save a lot of time and grief at the checkpoint. It's just common sense...
 
I had a lighter stashed in a pocket of my backpack that I had completely forgotten about. It's a big bag with lots of pockets, carried it on pretty much every flight and deployment for years, and it accumulated a lot of stuff, so easy mistake. I had gone through at least half a dozen airports carrying that bag before a TSA agent discovered it. I was "huh, I haven't seen that in a while. Oh well, toss it."

She got an irritated look on her face because I mentioned no one else had caught it, and I'd flown a lot that year.

I'm beginning to wonder if the "Homeland Security Agents" on Top Shot might in fact be TSA.
 
No experience with anything firearms related, but i was forced to throw away a "TSA approved" bottle of contact solution by an agent that I paid $10 for IN THE AIRPORT. (Which is twice the usual cost for about half of the amount in a normal bottle) Almost got arrested when I opened the sealed box and showed him the sealed bottle, then unsealed the bottle and squirted contact solution on the floor in his direction....
 
Sadly we lost more then the people who died on 9/11 that would be freedom, and yet some feel ok with that, personally I haven't flown since and don't missed the rudeness of the airlines.

I often wonder what freedom people would give up if they could be made totally safe, sounds like prison.:(


TSA= welfare jobs program.
 
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Any government organization without any citizen oversight/control is wrong.
 
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We stopped having aircraft flying into buildings on 9/11.

I have to agree w/ pittspilot. Pre-9/11 the formula was, everyone shuts up and sits still, the plane is flown to Libya, or some other third-world armpit, and everyone sits tight for 3 or 4 days until Delta smears the terrorists' brains across the cabin (hopefully, the passengers stay out of the way of flying lead). However, after 9/11 all bets were off. If you are going to die anyway, better to go down fighting and maybe live to tell the tale.

I'm serious when I say everyone should have a live taser under their seat with their life preserver.
 
Sorry guys but pre-911 you couldn't take magazines on board either. It's just screening was so bad back then you could get all kinds of things onboard. As far as a mag on board the logic goes: the weapon is broken down and given to a number of people who drop off the parts and put the whole thing together and use it for nefarious purposes.
And let's face it, if you jump up on a plane with a knife, the American flying public is going to open up a giant can a whoopass on you. Sorry for your inconvienance, but you losing a mag is better than losing a plane or a building.
 
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I think the "no parts for a firearm" rule is based on somewhere in the past hijackers took apart a pistol and each smuggled a part onto a plane or ship and then reassembled it. Or a dark version of that episode of MASH when they found someone mailing a Jeep home piece by piece. It's a very old smuggling trick.

Don't know where on this planet it happened but it must have been somewhere. Hence law enforcement is a bit paranoid about individual firearm parts and ammo.
 
Can you tell my why you would even consider using your range bag for a carry on. You deserve what ever you get. I cant believe anyone could be that dumb.
 
GEEZ People! If you know your bag is going to be inspected at the airport, why wouldn't you inspect it yourself before you leave the house? For crying out loud, this happens every day somewhere. People go to jail for being negligent with regard to this stuff.

It's not the government's fault. It's not the TSA's fault. It's your fault.

You know the rules. You know the penalties. Dump your fricking bag out on the bed before you pack to make sure there is nothing else in it. It's that simple.
 
There are 1000's of TSA horror stories, many of them shear lunacy..

I had buddy who flew IN UNIFORM to accompany the body of a fallen officer to his home state. No problems until he went through the check point... they wanted to scan his carry on.. they seized his mouthwash and shampoo because the containers were over 3 oz. but he was wearing a pistol.. Go figure..

I used to travel alot, I have had tweezers, lighters, even a money clip because it had a fingernail file in it... lunacy...

Now when I fly, I wear slip on shoes, NOTHING in my pockets.. anything that may REMOTELY raise a eyebrow is checked. ID and passport in one pocket with ticket. Everything else in a waist pouch.. minimal to no carry on.. royal pain if they ever loose your luggage. but I get through security pretty quick...
 
Some of you need to lighten up and realize that, yes, your crap stinks too. Misakes happen and once in awhile people misplace or forget about a simple non-weapon non-dangerous non-restricted possession item that the airlines do not allow to be carried on.

And it wouldn't have to be a 'range bag' to have some ammo or a magazine in. Believe it or not some of us carry 'gun stuff' with us places other than the range.
 
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