paintballdude902
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i flew home for my sisters wedding this past weekend and purchased a hard sided rifle case to fly a few guns home.
i was kinda worried about it being a pain in the butt, but it turned out very simple. i did not travel with ammo.
i walked into RDU with 1 rifle and 1 shotgun in a plano "bone collector" 2 rifle case. walked up to the US air check in told her i had 2 firearms in a case, showed her they were unloaded then signed on piece of paper and closed it up. since im military and only had 1 other bag she didnt even make me pay for it. i then rolled it over to over sized luggage waited on tsa for 5 min, opened it up to show him they were unloaded then he did one of those explosive chemical tests on it (didnt see the point in that since there are guns in it...) then closed it and locked the case with the 2 built in locks plus 2 more tsa approved locks and handed it off.
when i landed the luggage guy just asked for my ID then handed it over.
heck checking my guns was the easiest part of my entire trip ........ but alas i still made it to second base with the TSA guy after the naked body scanner.....
i was kinda worried about it being a pain in the butt, but it turned out very simple. i did not travel with ammo.
i walked into RDU with 1 rifle and 1 shotgun in a plano "bone collector" 2 rifle case. walked up to the US air check in told her i had 2 firearms in a case, showed her they were unloaded then signed on piece of paper and closed it up. since im military and only had 1 other bag she didnt even make me pay for it. i then rolled it over to over sized luggage waited on tsa for 5 min, opened it up to show him they were unloaded then he did one of those explosive chemical tests on it (didnt see the point in that since there are guns in it...) then closed it and locked the case with the 2 built in locks plus 2 more tsa approved locks and handed it off.
when i landed the luggage guy just asked for my ID then handed it over.
heck checking my guns was the easiest part of my entire trip ........ but alas i still made it to second base with the TSA guy after the naked body scanner.....