|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owner/Instructor at Semper Paratus Arms
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SemperParatusArms/
Semper Paratus Arms AR15 Armorer Course http://www.semperparatusarms.com/cou...-registration/
M4C Misc. Training and Course Announcements- http://www.m4carbine.net/forumdisplay.php?f=141
Master Armorer/R&D at SIONICS Weapon Systems- http://sionicsweaponsystems.com
Having flown with long gun cases a few times, my experience has been that the airline will hand carry your gun to their baggage claim office, where you will have to show ID to claim it.
I've used a cheap, flexy hard case before. But now my guns fly in a soft case packed into a Pelican case. The wheels on the pelican case come in handy if you have multiple guns plus ammo in the case.
And I've flown with firearms a few times, both long guns in their own cases and pistols locked in hard cases then put into soft luggage and always claimed as firearms.
EVERY time I've found them circling the baggage claim belt. Once was clearly a gun case with 4 padlocks on it. Thankfully I was there to catch it but the airlines didn't treat my bags any differently even knowing there were guns it them.
Police work: If it were easy it would be called your mom.
"It is better to be a Warrior in a Garden than a Gardner in a War"
Let's use the First Amendment to protect the Second so we can avoid using the Second to protect the First.
So You guys have helped me alot and Im gonna be taking advice sooner than planned. Im flyin to AZ. next weekend.
About the only advice I'd add is to get to the airport extra early. That way if any snags do possibly occur (which Im sure wont) you will have more time to decide on another plan.
Another thing I would do is definitely call the airline/airport first and find out if they have any specific rules beyond what TSA requires.
The only big issue that I have witnessed at the airport was a desk agent scolding a passenger and not allowing him to take his ammo as the ammo was loose in a ziploc bag. The agent said that the ammo had to be packed in a container that prevented the bullets from moving around (ammo box with tray).
TSA is a joke. I flew from Lincoln, to Phoenix a few years ago to visit family. I decided to take my pistol with me so we could go to the range while I was there. When I got to the TSA agent so they could check the firearm to make sure it was unloaded the agent asks me if the weapon is loaded and I replied no. She then proceeds to pick up my pistol and sweeps me and about half a dozen other people behind me with the muzzle. The people TSA hires are retards! I don't know what training they give these people, but it doesn't include firearms safety or even awareness. The return trip was less eventful and the TSA pukes in PHX made no attempt to even handle my weapon. I can't escape the idea that the moron in Lincoln had simply never held a pistol before and got curious.
I've never had TSA or any airline employee touch my firearm or even ask me to remove it. After informing them it is unloaded, and opening the case for them to visually inspect it.. its pretty easy to see there is no magazine inserted into the firearm. They've always taken my word and/or that quick visual inspection as gold.
Considering the sensitivity surrounding firearms and airports, Im surprised any airline would be that bold to "whip it out and wave it around". They might as well have screamed the word bomb. Im sure most of the other airline employees are smart enough NOT to do that.
Last edited by Daekwan; 02-27-11 at 10:40.
Bookmarks