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Hey all- Booking flights, today, and saw one leg going through Chicago. Will my pistols really go missing, on a connection? Should I book a more expensive flight that avoids CHI? BruceThis message has been edited. Last edited by: RNshooter, "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | ||
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| Rail-less and Tail-less |
If you aren't picking up your checked baggage between flights it should be fine. _______________________________________________ Use thumb-size bullets to create fist-size holes. | |||
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I doubt you will experience any additional problems then you would have at any other large city airport. | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
I thought it was a TSA problem so losing it on a stopover would be a worry, then. If it's just thieves stealing Pelican cases off the baggage carousel, I'm good. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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I don't think they come out on the carousel anymore... _________________________________________ I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew... | |||
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I had 2 transfers through OHare last month and my gun made it through just fine. | |||
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I used to fly through ORD a lot before I wised up. Never had an issue with my guns. | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
How do they come out? Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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My pistols (stored in a lock box in a regular roller bag) come out like normal. AR15 in a storm case went to the baggage office. | |||
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Depending on the airline, many of them are treating bags with guns like "lost bags" that missed a connection. They have a tag that tells the handler to bring it to the luggage office. You then pick it up there. Reduces theft risks and doesn't put any special notice your bag contains a gun (again, treated just like a bag that had missed a connection). I travel with a hardside suitcase that locks with TSA locks, and then a separate lock-box with a cable that threads through the frame of the suitcase. That lock-box uses a non-TSA lock. You'd have to have tools or completely destroy the suitcase to steal the contents of the inner box. | |||
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You'll be fine. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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I flew through midway earlier this month with a pistol in the checked bag. No issues. | |||
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For a discreet travel case I use an old Samsonite suitcase I purchased on ebay. If anyone was into stealing suitcases, mine would be the last one that they would grab. -c1steve | |||
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Unless the guns are in an obvious gun case, none of the baggage handlers (airline workers, not TSA) would know the contents. Can the thieves select bags at random and steal whatever is in them? Probably. | |||
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| teacher of history |
Most airlines seem to be marking the outside of luggage that contains a firearm.
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I did not know that! I've never checked a firearm, but I've read about the tag that goes into the bag. | |||
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