My wife and I flew back from Fort Lauderdale to Maryland yesterday morning on AirTran. I checked my luggage at the ticket counter since I had to declare my Beretta Jetfire .25 ACP that I took with me (I have a Florida CCW). The garment bag with the pistol never made it to Baltimore. I filled out the requisite paper work and noted on the form the missing bag contained a firearm. To make the story short the bag ended up in Newark, NJ and was sent to Atlanta Saturday night and then back to Baltimore Sunday morning. It was dropped off at the house Sunday afternoon and the pistol was still in its locked hard case. In the main section of the garment bag there was the card from TSA that the bag had been opened for inspection. I had a TSA approved lock on the pocket that I stored the pistol case in and I don't know if they opened that one or not but can only assume that after they checked the bag it was put on the wrong cart.
That was one experience I hope never to repeat.
That was one experience I hope never to repeat.
