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Many of you may remember my earlier post about flying with a glock case with a padlock around the handle… here is my experience..
I had no issues with the AA rep checking in my bag. Everything went smoothly, she never asked to see if it was unloaded, just took my word for it and had me sign the declaration card.
I took my checked backpack containing only my gun and 150 rounds of ammo to the TSA screening area. Handed my bag to the lady and told her that there was an unloaded, declared firearm in there. She said no problem, and that I needed to go to the other side of the screener and wait. She placed my backpack on the screening machine and said NOTHING to the screener. I thought it was weird, but didn’t say anything at this point. I walk to the other side to find my backpack coming out of the machine and see a TSA officer place it on the cart with other checked baggage. More and more bags come through and pile up and no one says anything to me, so I finally ask one of the officers if the yellow backpack containing the pistol is OK to go… You won’t believe this.. His response, “There is a firearm in there?” I said yes, he then goes over to the guy watching the xrays of the bags and talks to him for a second.. He stops scanning bags and they both attend to my backpack, open up all the zippers, look at the case and check that the lock is on securely and throw it back on the baggage cart, then told me to have a nice flight.
This was my first time flying with a firearm… definitely and interesting experience and not at all what I expected from TSA.. I expected them to be extra safe and give me issues about not having my firearms secured enough or something, definitely not missing a firearm in the screening process…
I had no issues with the AA rep checking in my bag. Everything went smoothly, she never asked to see if it was unloaded, just took my word for it and had me sign the declaration card.
I took my checked backpack containing only my gun and 150 rounds of ammo to the TSA screening area. Handed my bag to the lady and told her that there was an unloaded, declared firearm in there. She said no problem, and that I needed to go to the other side of the screener and wait. She placed my backpack on the screening machine and said NOTHING to the screener. I thought it was weird, but didn’t say anything at this point. I walk to the other side to find my backpack coming out of the machine and see a TSA officer place it on the cart with other checked baggage. More and more bags come through and pile up and no one says anything to me, so I finally ask one of the officers if the yellow backpack containing the pistol is OK to go… You won’t believe this.. His response, “There is a firearm in there?” I said yes, he then goes over to the guy watching the xrays of the bags and talks to him for a second.. He stops scanning bags and they both attend to my backpack, open up all the zippers, look at the case and check that the lock is on securely and throw it back on the baggage cart, then told me to have a nice flight.
This was my first time flying with a firearm… definitely and interesting experience and not at all what I expected from TSA.. I expected them to be extra safe and give me issues about not having my firearms secured enough or something, definitely not missing a firearm in the screening process…