"That punk pulled a Glock 17 on me. You know what that is? It's a polymer framed gun made in Smyrna, GA. Definitely will show up on your airport X-ray machines, here, and it cost more than you make in a couple days."
Brother why are you traveling with a bag that previously had gun/ hunting accessories in it? I’d never use my gun bags for travel, you’re bound to miss something and next thing you know you’re locked up in a foreign country because you forgot one bullet in your bag.
I have had a cigar cutter in my jacket pocket that I have travelled with 20 times since I picked it up at a Christmas work party and no one has said anything about it.
I had my grandfather's p38 can opener that I had on my keychain taken by TSA when I was a teenager. Stayed with him since it was issued to him and then he gave it to me. Bitch ass TSA agent didn't BELIEVE that it was a can opener
"sir you paid for your ticket, you're not required to provide your own aircraft. it won't fit in the carry on anyway, you're going to have to find a way to put it in our amnesty bin"
You're not wrong, but Irrelevant point. It was the p38 that he retained for upward of 50 years, I don't really care about the semantics of whether or not he had to sign off on it.
I remember on the Unsubscribe podcast, Donut Operator talked about a buddy of his that was on a flight and they missed a whole gun. He opened his bag to get out his earbuds and nearly had a heart attack when he saw a Glock in his bag that the TSA missed. I'm pretty sure he elected to not bother with the earbuds.
I haven't flown in a plane since I was like 10 years old, so about 15 years, but that is an absolute nightmare scenario for me. Best case scenario, you leave the airport you arrive at figuratively shitting yourself without incident, worst case scenario, you get a felony and are stripped of your rights for the rest of your life. It's like a game of Russian roulette for luck, and if you lose that game, you play Russian roulette again for how understanding the TSA is.
This raises a question though. What if a terrorist takeover happens while your gun is accidentally in your bag, and you slot the guy or guys in the face? What are the legal repercussions of a guy saving the lives of potentially hundreds of inncoent people on a plane with his gun that accidentally got through TSA. Hey, there's an idea for a short film or a movie.
Things they failed to catch upon which discovering in my carryon made me paranoid as hell:
Yeah I may or may not have entered a foreign country once with a 3" Fixed blade I forgot about in my toiletry bag. Certain airports are terrible with security.
You hear all these horror stories about folks getting trapped in the Turks and Caicos Islands or whatever because they had a single round of 9 mm in their luggage that TSA failed to catch in atlanta.
I had a similar large fixed blade knife in the very bottom of my backpack in a leather sheath.
Flew twice - only when I was unpacking back home did I realize it was there.
Got stopped for a lighter someone reverse pickpocketed onto me in line, but they missed the swiss army knife i accidentally left in my coat pocket that same instance
I work for a police department that has a major airport in the county. Sometimes, with the assistance of the Port PD, our detective units will test TSA. A detective snuck a gun past TSA, got back in line and snuck it past the second TSA agent.
I had forgotten about a small folding pocket knife/multi-tool thing in my backpack for years of flights before somebody finally noticed it and it got taken out and confiscated. Luckily I didn’t even remember it was there so I wasn’t torn up about loosing it.
Flew before out of the country with a friend who didn't know he had a Bowie knife in his carry-on until after we landed overseas, I got in trouble for having a hotel shampoo bottle that was "too big"
There's no way they'd let you bring golf clubs as a carry on, which means this was checked, which means this person just forgot it was in there. That also explains the fsirly light hearted description that makes it sound like an oopsie and not some sinister smuggling plot.
I made it through Columbus airport with a loaded .380 mag accidentally. Got caught w it on the flight back from vegas. Now I’m important apparently cause I got put on a special list! Can’t make that oops again!
I can imagine how this went. That person received this assignment. The wrote that giggling. Then they pulled in all their friends in the surrounding cubical to read it. They all laughed, then they sent it to their boss. Their boss laughed and at the next meeting had to show it so all the other managers got a good giggle out of it. I’m going to assume at least 30 employees wasted about 30 minutes each reading and joking around with this. Now everyone else is now trying hard to out do this post with their assignments and wasting more time than just writing out the way it is.
I'm 34 I assumed you couldn't enter an airport with a firearm period hell last time I was in an airport we walked well road a belt down a hallway that had lights that changed color over us for every person in line and I knew they were scanning us I assumed they knew what we had on us before we even made it to the TSA line to be put in the spinning scanner you had to hold your hands over your head during
Don’t carry on any single part of a firearm. No stock, grips, sights or any other part of a firearm. Reason is ten people might be carrying enough to assemble a gun. Just saying!
In Houston airport, my (Much older) coworker comes up, starts to discuss this weeks job we were traveling for, reaches into his laptop bag, and freezes, just says, I have to go out to the car, and hauls ass away. He left his derringer in his bag, and made it through TSA. Yes, he was pre check, but still, bags go through the scanner.
How many states register shotguns? And logically I would think if I were traveling with a shotgun of dubious legal veracity, I would want to make it seem like as normal a thing as possible and put it in a normal case, not hide it next to my 3 wood.
The thieves at TSA and the airport workers would see a set of clubs and salivate at the thought of stealing them anyway. Why not just lock the gun up like a normal human being? And why tf would you think (even if they were clubs) that transporting them like that would be a smart idea?
And instead of having a lady's tee, we'll just set the hole to full throttl. It even has a built in fireworks display that goes off automatically on a hole in one! Or any other time the ball gets within 50 feet of it.
AM-64@reddit
I am more shocked the TSA actually caught it.
They are pretty notorious for missing stuff.
dadbodsupreme@reddit
Things I have been stopped for:
Things they failed to catch upon which discovering in my carryon made me paranoid as hell:
Walkswithnofear@reddit
Must have been one of those non-porcelain Glock slides.
dadbodsupreme@reddit
"That punk pulled a Glock 17 on me. You know what that is? It's a polymer framed gun made in Smyrna, GA. Definitely will show up on your airport X-ray machines, here, and it cost more than you make in a couple days."
Illustrious_Crab1060@reddit
Glock *7
ErikTheRed99@reddit
It takes me all 4 of my work days for the week to afford a new Glock, but only the first 2 to afford a used one.
CFishing@reddit
So what you’re saying is you should be buying 2 glocks a week?
AssassinateThePig@reddit
Yes. Homeless folks gotta stay strapped. It’s rough out there.
CFishing@reddit
You could buy even more hi points to arm the unhoused folx.
justadude802@reddit
You'd be surprised when I make in a couple days...
Jawkess@reddit
Brother why are you traveling with a bag that previously had gun/ hunting accessories in it? I’d never use my gun bags for travel, you’re bound to miss something and next thing you know you’re locked up in a foreign country because you forgot one bullet in your bag.
ISK_Reynolds@reddit
I have had a cigar cutter in my jacket pocket that I have travelled with 20 times since I picked it up at a Christmas work party and no one has said anything about it.
I_love_Bunda@reddit
Cigar cutters are allowed, though.
TallyGoon8506@reddit
This cat needs a range only bag
ThatOtherITDude@reddit
Everyone should have range gear, and vacation/travel gear. Never should the two cross paths.
ErikTheRed99@reddit
MA, THE CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG, MA! YOU'RE GONNA GET US KICKED OFF THE TRAIN, MA!
dadbodsupreme@reddit
And I do, now. It only took way too many close calls for me to learn.
PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES@reddit
I had my grandfather's p38 can opener that I had on my keychain taken by TSA when I was a teenager. Stayed with him since it was issued to him and then he gave it to me. Bitch ass TSA agent didn't BELIEVE that it was a can opener
dadbodsupreme@reddit
Oof. I woulda ended up on the news.
PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES@reddit
If I were older I would have too. I was only 15 at the time and didn't really understand how in the right I was. Or at least not in the wrong.
dadbodsupreme@reddit
I just imagine you explained to the TSA agent "it's a p38" and they react " you can't have military aircraft in your carry-on!"
That's the only way this is funny.
PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES@reddit
"sir you paid for your ticket, you're not required to provide your own aircraft. it won't fit in the carry on anyway, you're going to have to find a way to put it in our amnesty bin"
dadbodsupreme@reddit
"Ugh" you sigh and pull out a hacksaw to cut it into smaller pieces so it'll fit.
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
They didn't "issue" P38's, they came in the rations, C or K.
PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES@reddit
You're not wrong, but Irrelevant point. It was the p38 that he retained for upward of 50 years, I don't really care about the semantics of whether or not he had to sign off on it.
ErikTheRed99@reddit
I remember on the Unsubscribe podcast, Donut Operator talked about a buddy of his that was on a flight and they missed a whole gun. He opened his bag to get out his earbuds and nearly had a heart attack when he saw a Glock in his bag that the TSA missed. I'm pretty sure he elected to not bother with the earbuds.
dadbodsupreme@reddit
If I recall correctly he just kind of held his position with a death grip on his bag hoping no one saw it in the brief moment he had his bag opened.
ErikTheRed99@reddit
I haven't flown in a plane since I was like 10 years old, so about 15 years, but that is an absolute nightmare scenario for me. Best case scenario, you leave the airport you arrive at figuratively shitting yourself without incident, worst case scenario, you get a felony and are stripped of your rights for the rest of your life. It's like a game of Russian roulette for luck, and if you lose that game, you play Russian roulette again for how understanding the TSA is.
This raises a question though. What if a terrorist takeover happens while your gun is accidentally in your bag, and you slot the guy or guys in the face? What are the legal repercussions of a guy saving the lives of potentially hundreds of inncoent people on a plane with his gun that accidentally got through TSA. Hey, there's an idea for a short film or a movie.
Jaruut@reddit
I got detained in Hawaii over sea salt
dadbodsupreme@reddit
Was it tinted blue?
Jaruut@reddit
I believe it was just black volcanic salt, bought at a gift shop by the airport
gconsier@reddit
At least it wasn’t a Medal of Honor the tsa was trying to take as it was a ninja star. Happened to Joe Foss.
TaskForceD00mer@reddit
Yeah I may or may not have entered a foreign country once with a 3" Fixed blade I forgot about in my toiletry bag. Certain airports are terrible with security.
dadbodsupreme@reddit
You hear all these horror stories about folks getting trapped in the Turks and Caicos Islands or whatever because they had a single round of 9 mm in their luggage that TSA failed to catch in atlanta.
ChemistryOver9046@reddit
I had a similar large fixed blade knife in the very bottom of my backpack in a leather sheath. Flew twice - only when I was unpacking back home did I realize it was there.
crappy-mods@reddit
Got stopped for a lighter someone reverse pickpocketed onto me in line, but they missed the swiss army knife i accidentally left in my coat pocket that same instance
Da1UHideFrom@reddit
I work for a police department that has a major airport in the county. Sometimes, with the assistance of the Port PD, our detective units will test TSA. A detective snuck a gun past TSA, got back in line and snuck it past the second TSA agent.
PewPewPony321@reddit
I live in a town with lots of police and I test them often!
Speed, drive high every day, dark tint, no blinker, etc
Clean record for 17 years
Anyway...
556_FMJs@reddit
I accidentally brought one of those cheap Chinese switchblades on my carry on. No clue how they missed it, it was bright yellow lol.
Zona_Asier@reddit
I had forgotten about a small folding pocket knife/multi-tool thing in my backpack for years of flights before somebody finally noticed it and it got taken out and confiscated. Luckily I didn’t even remember it was there so I wasn’t torn up about loosing it.
ggibby@reddit
I forgot about the Benchmade in my carry-on, glad TSA didn't mind.
GrimIntention91@reddit
Nah, they pretty spot on when finding things they want to pocket.
AM-64@reddit
Most of which is stuff that isn't dangerous.
Flew before out of the country with a friend who didn't know he had a Bowie knife in his carry-on until after we landed overseas, I got in trouble for having a hotel shampoo bottle that was "too big"
IamJewbaca@reddit
They are really good at finding when toothpaste tubes are slightly larger than they are supposed to be.
F1uffydestro@reddit
Probably his 10th time doing it
SparrowDynamics@reddit
Someone should make that into a poster (art) to hang on the wall.
Flossy_Jay@reddit
Random question but do you have to declare a complete upper receiver with no lower?
emperor000@reddit
If you don't want it confiscated, then yes. It will show up as a firearm on something like this anyway.
fordag@reddit
Since when does a full set of gold clubs count as a carry on bag? WTF?
emperor000@reddit
There's no way they'd let you bring golf clubs as a carry on, which means this was checked, which means this person just forgot it was in there. That also explains the fsirly light hearted description that makes it sound like an oopsie and not some sinister smuggling plot.
Rmusick81@reddit
I made it through Columbus airport with a loaded .380 mag accidentally. Got caught w it on the flight back from vegas. Now I’m important apparently cause I got put on a special list! Can’t make that oops again!
0_fuks@reddit
Was it the agents or the computer telling them that there’s possibly a firearm in that bag?
Iloveclouds9436@reddit
I sure as hell hope they're using AI to spot things. People cannot notice enough on their own.
Raeyth420@reddit
See the red rectangle around it? The computer from drawing from a ai database of similar objects scanned
Drake_Acheron@reddit
That makes me feel 1 million times better cause I would’ve fucking missed this
the_spacecowboy555@reddit
I hate stupid puns. Just tell it the way it is.
C_IsForCookie@reddit
Hey now, writing that post was probably the highlight of the public info employees day lol
the_spacecowboy555@reddit
I can imagine how this went. That person received this assignment. The wrote that giggling. Then they pulled in all their friends in the surrounding cubical to read it. They all laughed, then they sent it to their boss. Their boss laughed and at the next meeting had to show it so all the other managers got a good giggle out of it. I’m going to assume at least 30 employees wasted about 30 minutes each reading and joking around with this. Now everyone else is now trying hard to out do this post with their assignments and wasting more time than just writing out the way it is.
C_IsForCookie@reddit
Seems fitting that an agency based around security theater would waste time with trivial office duties lol
gregiorp@reddit
Honestly I'd like to have the job of seeing what I could get pass the AI.
C_IsForCookie@reddit
“Test #107: Disguising the shotgun with glasses and a mustache” 😂
brachus12@reddit
was most likely just an agency test
Drake_Acheron@reddit
I would have missed it
lordsmooth@reddit
It had a covering on it though
McSkillz21@reddit
Is that a sbe3?
Jester00@reddit
Guy misunderstood what a shotgun start for the tournament meant. It was his first time, totally understandable.
xTeamRwbyx@reddit
Wait, you can walk into an airport with a gun in a box locked and just tell them and they’ll take care of the rest on how it gets shipped.
Friendly_Deathknight@reddit
lol yes.
xTeamRwbyx@reddit
I learned something new today
Friendly_Deathknight@reddit
To be fair, I didn’t know that until my mid 20s
xTeamRwbyx@reddit
I'm 34 I assumed you couldn't enter an airport with a firearm period hell last time I was in an airport we walked well road a belt down a hallway that had lights that changed color over us for every person in line and I knew they were scanning us I assumed they knew what we had on us before we even made it to the TSA line to be put in the spinning scanner you had to hold your hands over your head during
Friendly_Deathknight@reddit
You have to check the firearm, and when I did it, I had to have my pistol in a rifle case. Fortunately I was also transporting a rifle.
non-number-name@reddit
Yes and no;
At your airline’s baggage drop-off counter, tell the attendant that you have a firearm that you want to declare.
After taking care of your boarding pass and other baggage, the attendant will direct you to a TSA checkpoint.
At the checkpoint, a TSA agent will have you open your case and inspect the object for proper storage before relocking and taking custody.
_ohCapt@reddit
Might get “lost” but yeah that’s the idea.
conipto@reddit
How did they see it? It's camouflaged.
ErikTheRed99@reddit
See what? All I see are golf clubs.
Ifarm3@reddit
Don’t carry on any single part of a firearm. No stock, grips, sights or any other part of a firearm. Reason is ten people might be carrying enough to assemble a gun. Just saying!
SaundersTurnstone@reddit
What a knucklehead
non-number-name@reddit
I really appreciate that the TSA took the time to explain the proper way to transport.
fingernuggets@reddit
In Houston airport, my (Much older) coworker comes up, starts to discuss this weeks job we were traveling for, reaches into his laptop bag, and freezes, just says, I have to go out to the car, and hauls ass away. He left his derringer in his bag, and made it through TSA. Yes, he was pre check, but still, bags go through the scanner.
omega552003@reddit
Whoopsies
trainwreck84@reddit
My mashie!
Steelersfan20009@reddit
Why would you do this? You could just have the bag checked. The only thing I could think of is maybe it was unregistered, which is even crazier lol
cledus1911@reddit
Which still means diddly squat in the context of checking a bag at the airport, even if you live in one of the few places that have actual registries.
monty845@reddit
Could also be an issue in the place they were traveling to...
Steelersfan20009@reddit
Yeah so this dude is just wild then right? lol
thor561@reddit
How many states register shotguns? And logically I would think if I were traveling with a shotgun of dubious legal veracity, I would want to make it seem like as normal a thing as possible and put it in a normal case, not hide it next to my 3 wood.
Friendly_Deathknight@reddit
Right? This just seems like a way to have your gun stollen by some ground crew and not be able to do shit about it.
BeenisHat@reddit
playing golf should disqualify you on the 4473.
I said what I said.
Puzzleheaded_Fix3135@reddit
What if you play golf but only with the Xfore golf ball launcher.
BeenisHat@reddit
Degenerates. Every one of them.
UTAHBASINWASTELAND@reddit
"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States." H.L. Mencken
ecodick@reddit
I agree with this, elected officials need to quit wasting time and money golfing.
I will make an exception for mini-golf, since it's an activity for the proletariat. And I like the little windmills and pirate ships.
Emergency_Ad_5935@reddit
But officer the tournament says it’s a shotgun start!
PrestigiousOne8281@reddit
The thieves at TSA and the airport workers would see a set of clubs and salivate at the thought of stealing them anyway. Why not just lock the gun up like a normal human being? And why tf would you think (even if they were clubs) that transporting them like that would be a smart idea?
Friendly_Deathknight@reddit
Right? This looks like a great plan to get your gun stolen, and no be able to prove it.
zombie_girraffe@reddit
They can afford green fees on a TSA salary?
mkosmo@reddit
There's a fairway between them two taxiways o'r yonder. The hole is that nacelle on the parked airplane.
zombie_girraffe@reddit
And instead of having a lady's tee, we'll just set the hole to full throttl. It even has a built in fireworks display that goes off automatically on a hole in one! Or any other time the ball gets within 50 feet of it.
420Phase_It_Up@reddit
Maybe not, but they can definitely pawn or sell the clubs for a quick buck.
Happily-Non-Partisan@reddit
Some old boomer is losing his marbles.
Friendly_Deathknight@reddit
Why didn’t he just check that shit.
Walkswithnofear@reddit
Not necessarily — https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/are-golf-courses-an-alligators-paradise/
Friendly_Deathknight@reddit
Mad sus.
Anxious_Pickle5271@reddit
How else do you shoot a birdie?
Redrum_71@reddit
Wow. Just wow.
goshathegreat@reddit
What a jackass lol.
TameYT@reddit
Lmao I’m sorry but that’s so fucking stupid 😭
CakeArmy_Max@reddit
I don’t know why you wouldn’t just put it in a locked case. I wouldn’t even want to transport golf clubs that way.