I have heard the reason they want the firearm in hard-sided locked case is the lock should be one that is NOT TSA approved, so TSA or baggage handlers don't have a master key for it, and there is no chance that a hard-sided case would 'accidentally' tear and the gun 'just happen to fall out'. That way if the case DOES get opened it would have had to have been forced and there is no question it was intentional. The person who passed this info to me is a supervisor for baggage handlers. Sounds feasible to me.tool4daman wrote:Several years ago (but after 9/11), TSA (not the airline) refused to allow my baggage through security because I had a firearm in a zipped softside case inside of a locked hardside luggage. I declared the firearm at the counter; the reservation clerk inspected the unloaded firearm and gave me the the tag/form. I then proceeded to drop the bag at TSA inspection. The TSA team stopped me and made me remove the firearm from luggage. They told me that although the luggage was hardside and locked, the firearm itself had to be in a locked hardside case. I had printed the information regarding carrying firearms from the airline website, and I showed it to them. The information on the website back then only stated something the effect of handguns being required to be in hardside lockable luggage. They still refused to allow my bag through with the firearm, so I had to return it to my vehicle.
I have not travelled with a firearm since, but if I were to do it now- I would definitely put it inside a locked hardside case in a locked hardside luggage.
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- Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:27 am
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