Don't do what I once did. I forgot to remove a handcuff key from my personal key ring. They spotted it and boy was I embarrassed. Nothing happened but I sure did have a lot of TSA people looking at my stuff.

Flying out of Denver once my buddies and I hit Red Rocks prior to.
It was the days of film cameras so we asked for our stuff to be manually checked with no X ray.
They did the little swabbity, swab, swab on some our stuff and put it in the machine.
The machine had a siren and started to sound very loudly. Numerous more TSA agents and local police came over and we got taken to the side.
TSA agent looking at our IDs says who is Steven?
My buddy says that is me.
My other buddy then says pretty loudly, Steven, I did not know your name was Steven?
We then got take to another even smaller room.

My buddy Steven had always gone by his middle name instead of his first name and very few people knew that.

They searched and searched asked a bunch of questions then asked about going to a gun range or being near explosives.
They had actually been blasting that day at Red Rocks and some residue must have gotten on to our stuff.

I really did not think we would be making it onto our flight that night.

Always make sure clothes I wear on a flight have been washed if they have been worn at the range.
Don't need to answer any questions about "have you been around explosives."

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
Always make sure clothes I wear on a flight have been washed if they have been worn at the range.
Don't need to answer any questions about "have you been around explosives."

Been told the TSA residue swabs don't hit on gunpowder residue....other explosives yes. Many a time had my hands or bags checked right after a range trip with no events !

We flew to FL from Hartford CT a few years ago. I checked a pistol and we went through security and they asked what was in my bag, they saw something in it. Turned out I left a Benchmade 4” fixed blade in one of the pockets of the Maxpedition brief case I had. They told me I could either throw it away or go out and mail it home, which I did. I was horrified when they found it, I thought I lost it 2 years prior. It took them 10 minutes to find it, it was in one of the slide in pockets, which is hard to see.


They didn’t seem to bothered by it. I no longer mix bags for airline travel.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

The woman next to me took my window seat before I got here.

That happened to me once. I asked to see her boarding pass, she basically told me to fuck off. I turned the problem over to the Flight Attendant. Woman got nasty with the Flight Attendant and refused to show her boarding pass to the FA, who then conferred with the Captain. Hostile bitch was removed from the flight.

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Originally posted by sgalczyn:
Been told the TSA residue swabs don't hit on gunpowder residue....other explosives yes. Many a time had my hands or bags checked right after a range trip with no events !

Based on my last flight, I believe it. TSA swabbed inside my pistol case where the "I shot it last week and didn't clean it" Glock had rubbed around a bit before I closed it up. Guy closed it up and gave me a thumbs up. If they reacted with gunshot residue, then I'm reasonably sure I would've found out just then.

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Originally posted by sgalczyn:

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
Always make sure clothes I wear on a flight have been washed if they have been worn at the range.
Don't need to answer any questions about "have you been around explosives."

Been told the TSA residue swabs don't hit on gunpowder residue....other explosives yes. Many a time had my hands or bags checked right after a range trip with no events !

I don’t know specifically what it looks for but I can tell you from first hand experience when you set them off they ask if you have been to a gun range is one of the questions they ask you.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

The woman next to me took my window seat before I got here.

That happened to me once. I asked to see her boarding pass, she basically told me to fuck off. I turned the problem over to the Flight Attendant. Woman got nasty with the Flight Attendant and refused to show her boarding pass to the FA, who then conferred with the Captain. Hostile bitch was removed from the flight.

Part of me wanted to. Especially since she had boarded shortly before me, alreday had her phone and earbuds plugged in, and then pretended to be asleep. I was running ‘hot’ though, and just didn’t want the confrontation. She won that one I guess.

My wife and I were on our way to the airport in a hired car when while looking for something else I found my carry pistol and spare mag in my carry on. That carry on was also my regular gym bag where I habitually stored my gun while being a gym rat. If I hadn’t been looking for something else while on the way to the airport, I would have been “one of those guys”. The driver was a good guy who dropped my edc off with my adult son.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
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.

What happens to the gun? Obviously confiscated and not allowed aboard. Do they turn it over to the police for later collection by the passenger?

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
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.

You could always make sure she's the last to leave the plane when you land.

I used to travel alot and half of that was international. Must be the old soldier in me but I double check everything that goes on my person or in my bags. My range bags are different from my travel bags but I still go thru everything multiple times.

My dad realized he had a small leatherman on him and went into the atrium at the airport, sat down in a chair realized it had a little ledge under the cushion. Put the knife there and when he came back from his trip it was still there.

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Originally posted by Bulldog7972:
Don't do what I once did. I forgot to remove a handcuff key from my personal key ring. They spotted it and boy was I embarrassed. Nothing happened but I sure did have a lot of TSA people looking at my stuff.

I dont know why. handcuffs and key are allowed on carry on luggage

I'm sure I've told this story before, but flying from OKC to Houston or DFW one time a 30 something guy sat next to me in the window seat, I was in the aisle. The flight attendants kept looking at me and talking to each other. Finally one came up to me and whispered to me if I was carrying. I was confused and had a heart attack as to why they would be asking me that. I said no. They left and another one came back a couple minutes later and asked me again. The guy next to me butted in and asked what seat they were looking for or something, it was his seat. He said something to the effect of "You guys are idiots. You're going to get someone hurt." It turns out he was DSS. Nice guy, we had a great conversation about Iowa cops we knew, guns, Suburbans, etc.


Mrs. Scuba bought a pineapple knife at the Dole plantation on Oahu on our honeymoon years ago. I had packed the bags but she had moved things around and stuck the knife in the carryon bag... It's rounded, but its still a knife, maybe marginally more dangerous than a butterknife. TSA didn't like that but I was able to run it over to our checked back and chuck it in there still.

They weren't sure what to do about the people in front of me with two quart tubs full of potato salad or coleslaw though.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
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.

You mean she didn’t claim it was a facial massager?

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Originally posted by OneWheelDrive:

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
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.

You could always make sure she's the last to leave the plane when you land.

That kind of person will push their way off the plane I’m sure