I’m standing behind him at Philly TSA waiting for my laptop bag to scan through when the TSA agent running the show asks the guy ahead of me, “sir which bag is yours?

Him: “Umm…the black one”
Her: “Did you pack it yourself”
Him: closes eyes and turns a shocking shade of white
Her: “Sir…I asked you a question”
Him: “Oh God”
Her: “Sir I asked you a question.”

Additional TSA and Philly police show up. Lane is closed.
Our bags waiting to be cleared are moved to the next machine.

Her: “Sir what did we find in the bag?”
Him: “I thought I took it out”
Her “Sir, what did we find in the bag”

​Dear fellow shooters…always check your bags; even if you ‘know’ you don’t put pistols in them.

Dude was young, maybe early 20’s. Guessing he will remember this lesson for a while.

I guess the good news for him is that - absent aggravating circumstances - folks usually get off with just a civil fine and no criminal charges the first time.

This seems to happen with ridiculous frequency. Buy a damn range bag!!! Don’t use luggage.

Another tip. Remember to take your belt off.

I wasn't flying but the clerk asked if I wanted to escort my daughter to the gate and I said sure. I did leave my gun in the car safe so I was ready.

We're in line, I throw everything in the bin then take my shoes off and forget my belt. As I'm walking up to the naked machine, I remember my belt and the TSA guy says just hand it to him. I did and as I clear the machine he goes, this belt is heavy (Kore Essentials). I explain what it is and he goes trying to take it apart looking for a knife I guess then he frisks me. After I went through the machine.

The wife and I were going to Spain in Oct. We used an offsite parking service that got us to the airport via a shuttle. As soon as I walked in the door my heart dropped, I probably turned white too, I had a pistol in my pocket

I asked if there was a place to store it, nope My only choice was to take a taxi back to my truck. Already pressed for time, security was backed up.

I do this and get back, I have a bout 25 minutes to get on the plane. Security has about 300 people in line and it's not moving. I get to a corner and ask if I can cut in, I guess I looked panicked enough that they let me. I do it again and get to close to the front. Shift change and the scanners are not moving at all. I kind of showed my ass asking them to get moving, they do.

I get through and have about five minutes to get on the "Plane Train" My old ass starts running. I get off the train and run all the way to the gate, they were expecting me, guy said I had about 30 seconds to spare. My knees were yelling at me for a few weeks


BTW, the wife didn't wait for me, she was going with or without me


I don't mix bags with range and travel, but now I leave my pocket gun at home when traveling overseas as well

I think it is a great rule of thumb to have separate bags/luggage for airline travel. As a general rule before packing I empty everything, clear the bag, and pack each item individually after unfolding and re-folding.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

Her: “Sir what did we find in the bag?”
Him: “I thought I took it out”
Her “Sir, what did we find in the bag”

What is with that line of questioning? Was she trying to get him to incriminate himself?

The woman next to me took my window seat before I got here. I don't care enough to make a big deal about it, as I don’t mind the aisles, but she’s pretending to be asleep and we just boarded.

I’m tired and crabby so going to let it go. Don’t want to end up on someone’s “YouTube” video.

I got popped in Phoenix on the way to London and Berlin, had some loose live .223 rounds in my backpack. I normally never used that backpack at the range, but couldn't carry everything I wanted by myself, so I had to use a backpack. Everytime there was a ceasefire, I'd pull the charging handle back to empty the chamber. A few of those live rounds flew into my backpack, and I didn't notice it until the TSA guy told me at the airport. But we talked about our AR builds while the cop, who had been playing Candy Crush on his phone, filled out a card for me to sign that I was "surrendering" the ammo to Phoenix PD.

I had to throw away a nice knife in Frankfurt when the check-in kiosks had gone down and it backed things up for hours. I'd have never made that flight if I hadn't rammed my luggage through as carry-on. But that meant I had to throw some stuff away. Really sucked. Those two cops with the MP-5s were standing right next to me as I tossed that knife into the garbage can.

Pretty sure I've told this story here before, but I once intentionally put two PMags in my carryon because I was tight on the 50 lb weight limit for my checked bag. Of course at security the guy stops the line, calls over a supervisor, and they're looking at the scanner. I see it and say "that's mine-it's just magazines, not a gun".

So I'm being questioned by TSA and the local sheriff deputy, who is interrogating me like I have some evil intent. But I had a printout of the TSA rules and the specific airline rules on flying with weapons, and neither said anything about magazines being prohibited. Finally they say they don't care what the rules say, I'm not flying with those. So I had to go out of security and go to a post office in the airport and mail them to myself. Then back through security.

Only when I was home and looking again did I find the language about "firearm parts" being prohibited. It was really a design flaw in their websites, as if you went to a link from one area it had a whole list of prohibited items that did NOT include parts. But a link from a different section had different language that did.

I checked a P239 in my luggage for a flight from Jacksonville, FL to Dulles. I was in the window seat in the last row and a flight attendant told me the captain wanted to see me before I deplaned. When we landed, the whole crew came to me and pretty much surrounded me as I made my way to the cockpit. Capt. asked if I was LEO. I said no, why? He said he had me on a list as having brought a gun onboard. I told him it was in my checked luggage. He said they didn't tell him that. So I asked why he was waiting until we landed to ask me about it. He said he thought I may have been a sky marshal. I asked him how I'd be able to help him from the window seat in the last row. He said no big deal.

We're doomed.

Well my tip for the ladies, which a friend informed me, she learned the umm, hard way...

They don't allow personal pleasure devices in Dubai.

Yes to the separate bags, range visit or travel through the airport.

I can see how things happen, that stray round or two, empty magazine.

When it comes to that ‘forgotten’ handgun, I have fewer allowances. How could it fill a defensive role for you if you don’t remember you have it?

Of course a lot of people filter through TSA lines everyday. With me I normally have one handgun in rotation, on me or set in one of a few locations. I never get to the point of packing it somewhere and forgetting it. Before it got to that point, it would be back in the safe.

I really don’t understand how you “forget” that you have a gun in your bag or suitcase? Can someone explain this to me?

Bit surprised about the gun part thing.

Long long ago, I was told to carry on the bolts out of hunting rifles, so that if someone stole them, they would be useless.

Another reason why I always drive

A few years back I was flying to a conference and didn't notice that I had a loaded mag in my carry-on. It was caught pretty quickly, and I was allowed to run it out to my truck and return to the line. Thankfully that happened at a small regional airport and not somewhere else.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I really don’t understand how you “forget” that you have a gun in your bag or suitcase? Can someone explain this to me?

This.

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Originally posted by Rawny:

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

Her: “Sir what did we find in the bag?”
Him: “I thought I took it out”
Her “Sir, what did we find in the bag”

What is with that line of questioning? Was she trying to get him to incriminate himself?

Imagine the curiosity piqued by the statement, "Oh, you only found the pistol?"