About 5 years ago, while flying back to Houston from Columbus, I found my "OJ Simpson knife" (as my wife calls it) in my carry on. It's a 7 inch blade with a hilt and everything. It made it through the screening in Houston on the way up and Columbus on my way back. I freaked out a little then settled into my seat feeling safer on that plane than I ever have.Jumping Frog wrote:A month ago I flew from Columbus back to Houston with a box of 500 Ranier bullets in my carry-on. They freaked out when they saw it on the xray machine, opened my bag, called the supervisor, etc.
I pointed out it was not ammunition, just unloaded bullets.
They swabbed that whole part of my bag for explosives and didn't find any.
I was very glad they didn't swab the part of the bag that held the powder measure I was also bringing. Seeing as it has had at least 100 lbs of smokeless gunpowder through, I was fairly certain it would swab as positive for explosives.
After all the excitement was over, they let me proceed to the plane with my luggage.
The mouth breathers who work for TSA are a sharp group I tell ya.