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Flying with Firearms

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I flew with a couple guns a few years ago and there was nothing to it. I want to do it again and just wanted to make sure nothing has changed.

Before I just went to the ticket counter where you check in your luggage and told them I had some firearms. They told me I had to go over to a couple TSA guys who confirmed that they were unloaded and they put them on the belt with everything else.

Is this still the proceedure ?
 
I didn't have time to screw around with links, so I just continued on to the airport and hoped for the best. It was a total non-event; nothing to it.
26 day vacation, here I come.
 
Well, you hit the nail on the head. I was looking for the answer. Not a link so I could find the answer.
I posted the original question as I was walking out the door. I had a few errands to run and then I was going to the airport. I hadn't given a whole lot of thought to bringing the guns. I knew there was no problem the last time, but as I was walking out it occured to me that it might be a good idea just to double check that nothing has changed. Since I wasn't home I was just going to check for an answer on my cell phone while I was driving. This was pretty much a yes or no question: has anything changed ?
I am not going to click on a link and read another thread.............while I am driving. So, again, an answer would have been nice, a link was useless.



So, if anyone is interested in the answer: I flew from Las Vegas NV to Pittsburgh PA. At Las Vegas I had to check in at the ticket counter and not at the curbside check in (since I was checking in firearms). You are required to transport the firearms in a hard sided case that is locked. The person checking me in had me open the case right on the counter and she put a tag in that she had checked it. No big deal at all.
At the other end, in Pittsburgh, I waited for my luggage, guns never came out. I waited until I was the last one there and the conveyer belt had stopped. Then I went to the lost luggage office. There I found out that they don't put firearms on the belt, someone has to go get them and bring them down to you. I have no idea how you are supposed to know this. They must just count on ESP. So, I wasted a 1/2 hour to 45 mintues trying to figure this out but in the end, a guy went and got it for me and I walked out.
 
We'll I haven't traveled w/ guns yet, but I did fly w/ ammo for the first time a couple of weeks ago. At check-in I told the lady, per law & AA's policies that I was now informing her that I had ammo in my checked luggage and that it is in its original boxes. She give me a smile & look like I just told her I had packed a smelly fish sandwich but only asked how much it weighed (AA limits to 11#s). She had already printed out the tag, she immediately affixed it to my bag and threw it on the conveyor and off I went.

Curiously, I found a TSA leaflet in my bag when I got home. Dunno if it set off a detector or if it was happenstance - I don't think the counter lady did anything to my bag to indicate it had ammo aboard. Nothing seemed molested.
 
My checked baggage had been gone though by TSA also.
I wondered if the fact that I had firearms on board triggered the search of the rest of my luggage ?

FWIW: I had no ammo at all in my luggage.
 
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