Tactical Pens and airport security

[Robert111]

The tactical pen is a multi-tool that you can use as a striking or stabbing weapon for self-defense. With the right preparation and mindset, it can be an effective deterrent against an attacker, even if you don’t have any martial arts or self-defense training. You can use tactical pen follow some steps here: step 0: avoid the situation, step 1: assess the situation, step 2: know your target, step 3: strike, step 4: get help. Hope these steps can help you use tactical pen effectively.

 

[Drm50]

Is it possible to purchase a Vintage-World Class-Tactical Pen?

 

[Mule Packer]

My belt buckle is a weapon. So is a steel toe boot. A cane is a weapon. A sock with a soda can or stack of quarters is a weapon.

 

[Rich Richardson]

This thread is why I own an airplane.

 

[jdh]

They have never questioned my two freshly-sharpened pencils...

“He once killed three men in a bar with a pencil.
With a (expletive deleted) pencil.
Who does that?”



(DAMMIT bitten by another zombie thread. )

 

[steelslaver]

Good metal mechanical pencils have a finer point than a pen. That and a Sudoku puzzle book and your ready to fly.

 

[Mark8]

Kubaton

Kubotan

 

[mattallamerican]

look at what works at the airport i am not flying

 

[waffles]

Glad this thread got revived so I could have a laugh at the tactical pen thing.

 

[jpage]

I always have a large padlock in my carry-on. YMMV.

 

[moosedog]

I always take a couple of regular pens which will work just as well if used properly. I also take a compact hard cover book which can be used as a blunt force weapon. I also always sit next to the isle.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! A resurrected thread and it was mine as OP! Hilarious.

Kuboton. Kubotan. Who cares? It's not English from the get go!!!

I carry an aluminum pen with me when I fly. Rotring 600. It's discontinued but another company now makes the same pen for 25 bucks. Folks were paying ten times that for genuine Rotring 600s until recently. Heck, maybe they still are. But the copies are just 25 or 30 bucks. If you look it up you can see how remarkably well shaped for self defense it truly is. They handle great as pens, too!

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I have tactical pens and pens with hidden knife blades in them. I stopped carrying those onto planes after my 2018 incident noted above. I do take them with me when I travel but in checked luggage.

 

[Racer X]

knitting needles are allowed. The people making the prohibited list are idiots Knitting Needles | Transportation Security Administration

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

knitting needles are allowed. The people making the prohibited list are idiots Knitting Needles | Transportation Security Administration

Originally, right after 9/11, they were NOT allowed. I think that they were afraid some little old lady would knit an Afghan.

 

[Racer X]

TSA wanted to allow small knives, but the aircrew unions pitched a real fit.

 

[walnutred]

I take it none of y'all have tried sharpening the edge of a credit card. Done carefully you can shave with it and it's hard to notice unless looking.

 

[gerhard1]

An ordinary BIC ball-point would make a good stabbing weapon.

 

[rosewood]

Although the Zebra F701 is externally all metal, it isn't internally all metal. The tip screws into a plastic liner which is a weak point. I always had issues with pens breaking while carrying in my back pocket. Thought the Zebra was the fix until it broke also. That is when I switched to the S&W pen which had a bad habit of poking holes in my pants pocket, but it was the only metal pen I ever had that never broke. I now carry a Fisher "space" pen which is short and smooth but all metal in my front pocket.

Rosewood

 

[Muss Muggins]

I now carry a Fisher "space" pen which is short and smooth but all metal in my front pocket.

Rosewood

I like those Fisher pens, but I've recently switched to Rite in the Rain All Weather pocket pens, which are cheaper and lighter (plastic case instead of metal) and can be had in blaze orange, which helps me keep track of them. They're disposable, and about $13 for a pack of two. I've yet to run one out of ink. Every Fisher pen I have has been washed, more than once (but they do still keep writing) . . .

 

[steelslaver]

I find this all funny when at 6'4" and 300# I can get on an airplane with a rather large hardwood stick.