I assume Southwest...What airline?
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I assume Southwest...What airline?
Couple years?How long ago?? They long ago were supposed to stop using those "steal me" stickers for just this reason.
I admire your confidence. Wander to the baggage handling conveyors and that thought may evaporate.flying first class they tend to give a bit more attention to making sure the bags are where they need to be.
Damn! Airlines were told to stop with the steal me stickers before the TSA came along. Have to wonder which moron thought it would be a good idea to go back to using themCouple years?
Last time I flew couple years back I shipped but my checked luggage had a couple Taser's in it. When I got to the hotel I could see the bag had been gone through, then found a little card. Saying the TSA had been there for all our safety.Yep, they do, and it is (or was anyway) about a 3 day delay if you were found to have an undeclared firearm.
I once knew a person who worked the baggage check in at the Redmond, OR airport and he 'found' at least 3 guns during his time - one an FBI agent.
One of them, a guy actually set a rifle case (with rifle inside) with his luggage. Needless to say how that worked out.
LEO creds alone no longer apply for LEO to fly armed. For a while now.Cop friend of mine got stranded in Los Angeles while visiting me. He had driven out with his family from back east. He had to fly back in an emergency and the airline for whatever reason would not let him carry in on with him despite LEO creds. He was ADAMANT he would not check his service gun into the airline. I believe he had inside info on how often it happens that stuff turns up missing. This played a role in me shipping my guns from Florida to WA, no way I was gonna let three of my best and brightest (literally) get lost or stolen.
Last time I flew I put my gun in my suit case in a locked box with mag and ammo in separate locked box, declared it at counter, asked agent to tuck tag in suit case, totally cool about it, recieved at other end just fine..idk if they xrayd it, I would get in trouble or not. But I tried to comply.lolBe CAREFUL here. They do x-ray the bags. If they (TSA) see what they even think is a gun, they open the bag. If they find a gun you are going to find it was FAR from being worth trying to fly with it not declared.
Stealing from luggage is as old at flying. Airlines have long really just not cared because they don't have to. I ship guns ahead to myself and ship them back. If I had to fly with one checked I would make sure it was one I would not miss if it goes stolen.
It's VERY hard to get, like it used to be your supervisor called TSA, and sent a letter with you that you are on official business. Now the letter has to go to Federal Marshall's and wait for a response after the check you out and they deny alot unless you have a prisoner. The captain can still deny you when u board.LEO creds alone no longer apply for LEO to fly armed. For a while now.
Quite a bit of rules & regs, of which your friend did not qualify.
If he did, he would have flown armed. No drama.
The stickers probably created competition for TSA. If TSA employees are the only ones trying to steal guns it's much easier for them. Probably the union complained that people were stealing the guns before the employees could steal them. It's just not fair!Damn! Airlines were told to stop with the steal me stickers before the TSA came along. Have to wonder which moron thought it would be a good idea to go back to using them
I used a metal locking gun box with a cable secured to the bag. If they steal the gun, they would need to cut the cable or steal the whole bag.
Shortly after the TSA was invented the first thing they went after was to form a union. Wonder why they would want to do that.A member at our gun club related this one to me. He drove to Seattle to catch a plane to Florida, for a hog hunting trip. He checked his bags and firearms at SeaTac, then proceeded to the boarding gate. He had put an Apple tracker in with his firearms, and noticed that the gun case was out of the terminal, in a parking area. He notified TSA, and they all promptly went out to the parking area. It was a TSA employee who had his firearms in his personal car. The emplopyees explanation? He was going out to his car to get his lunch, and didn't want to leave the gun case unsecure. So he took it with him, out of the secure terminal area. Yeah, right. So far as this individual knows, nothing has been done to this employee as far as disciplinary action, and he figures it's because he is union. Nothing out of his congressional reps office either. At least he got his firearms back. Had to catch a later flight.
I've never had the need to check a handgun at the airport, but I have flown out of state to go hunting, checking long guns. Not anymore. I won't chance it, particularly since you can't trust anyone in those supposed "secure areas".
Why are people thinking it's ok to just use a handgun case as the "Checked" bag?A member at our gun club related this one to me. He drove to Seattle to catch a plane to Florida, for a hog hunting trip. He checked his bags and firearms at SeaTac, then proceeded to the boarding gate. He had put an Apple tracker in with his firearms, and noticed that the gun case was out of the terminal, in a parking area. He notified TSA, and they all promptly went out to the parking area. It was a TSA employee who had his firearms in his personal car. The emplopyees explanation? He was going out to his car to get his lunch, and didn't want to leave the gun case unsecure. So he took it with him, out of the secure terminal area. Yeah, right. So far as this individual knows, nothing has been done to this employee as far as disciplinary action, and he figures it's because he is union. Nothing out of his congressional reps office either. At least he got his firearms back. Had to catch a later flight.
I've never had the need to check a handgun at the airport, but I have flown out of state to go hunting, checking long guns. Not anymore. I won't chance it, particularly since you can't trust anyone in those supposed "secure areas".