Big Brother getting a bit too big??

[Xfuzz]

EZ for me.
NEVER been on a bird
and never plan to.

 

[Beemerguy53]

EZ for me.
NEVER been on a bird
and never plan to.

I'm curious...why have you never flown?

My first flight was from Baltimore to Cleveland when I was 19 years old. The company I was working for then sent me to Ohio for training. It was 1972. I walked into the airport, checked my bag, walked down to the gate (no security at all, as I recall), then out onto the tarmac and boarded my flight, a Piedmont Airlines DC-3. I changed planes in Pittsburgh before landing in Cleveland.

Since then, I have flown in everything from Grob and Schweitzer sailplanes to a 1942 Stearman bi-plane, to an Airbus 380. I never had the money for a pilot's license, but I love to fly!

I also love to drive and ride, and I will often use two or four wheels to take me where wings could go...but for safety, comfort, and convenience, you can't beat flying...

 

[Beemerguy53]

I had the same experience at the Phoenix airport while returning home over the Thanksgiving Holiday. I presume they figured if I took it with me it was coming home with me too. A slight twist though: On my outbound flight in Detroit a TSA agent unlocked the case and inspected the gun and under the foam cushions in the case. But on the return trip from Phoenix they only put the case under some kind of scanner which they said could detect residue if it were recently fired. They never opened the case! Go figure. Didn't bother me as I had nothing to hid and had followed all their little rules.

I've never had an experience anything like this.

Firearms must be in your checked bag, unloaded, etc. Your bag would have gone from the ticket counter to a TSA checked bag inspection station that is not in the public area...so how did you come to witness TSA opening it? Did they bring you to the checked baggage station to witness them opening it?

So far as I know, TSA screening procedures are designed only to detect weapons, explosives, and hazardous materials, and to keep those things off of airliners. I have never had any TSO officer tell me they needed to test for residue from one of my guns, and I can't imagine why they would care if I had recently fired a gun.

 

[therewolf]

Ah, Big Brother.

ANOTHER candidate for a major change in

DIET, and DISCIPLINE...

 

[Doug M.]

I've never had an experience anything like this.

Firearms must be in your checked bag, unloaded, etc. Your bag would have gone from the ticket counter to a TSA checked bag inspection station that is not in the public area...so how did you come to witness TSA opening it? Did they bring you to the checked baggage station to witness them opening it?

So far as I know, TSA screening procedures are designed only to detect weapons, explosives, and hazardous materials, and to keep those things off of airliners. I have never had any TSO officer tell me they needed to test for residue from one of my guns, and I can't imagine why they would care if I had recently fired a gun.

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The residue from at least some gunpowders is similar to the traces left from some explosives. I do not know if that is because the field tests are imprecise, or if the chemistry is that close. I have not been swabbed, but my case has been.

And not all inspection areas are out of view; I have been taken into out of sight places to do the inspection, or had them X-rayed. Varies from airport to airport.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

That's the reason I bought my Cessna Citation Bravo. No fuss no muss can carry on anything I want to and no TSA to go through. I highly reccomend one.

 

[wbraswell]

Big Brother too big? That's kind of what they thought back in '75.....1775 that is.