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A friend of mine I used to work with, just took a trip to New Mexico and this is what he wrote on Facebook what he had to go through to get the handgun on the flight.
Traveling with a handgun was interesting. You have to put it in a hard sided locked TSA approved case. Tell the agent when checking your suitcase there is an unloaded firearm in the suitcase. They have you open the case and they inspect the contents. The gun and mag have to be separate and unload, the ammo has to been in a retail type box that keeps them separate and not touching. Then you sign two docs stating that it is unloaded. Then you proceed to a TSA agent that removes everything from your suitcase and then asks you to unlock the gun case. They inspect it and then repack you suitcase and send it off to be loaded on the plane. Once you arrive you go to a TSA baggage claim area were you show ID and they give you the suitcase that is zip tied close with very large zip ties. Give yourself an extra 30 mins prior to boarding as it does take some time.
Traveling with a handgun was interesting. You have to put it in a hard sided locked TSA approved case. Tell the agent when checking your suitcase there is an unloaded firearm in the suitcase. They have you open the case and they inspect the contents. The gun and mag have to be separate and unload, the ammo has to been in a retail type box that keeps them separate and not touching. Then you sign two docs stating that it is unloaded. Then you proceed to a TSA agent that removes everything from your suitcase and then asks you to unlock the gun case. They inspect it and then repack you suitcase and send it off to be loaded on the plane. Once you arrive you go to a TSA baggage claim area were you show ID and they give you the suitcase that is zip tied close with very large zip ties. Give yourself an extra 30 mins prior to boarding as it does take some time.