500 Duke Issue

I have no issues at all buying them. If there's something I'm interested in, that is.

I mean... if you're fool enough to have a knife in your pocket when trying to board a plane why should I have any guilt, right? Seriously... you remembered your boarding pass, but forgot the knife clipped to your pocket? Can't claim ignorance, 9/11 made it an obvious foul.
 
I won’t buy TSA knives either. There should be a way to secure it and return it after the flight.

But I agree, knowing the rules. Its crazy that people still don’t listen.

I check myself a 100 times before a flight.
 
MT_Pokt said:
I mean... if you're fool enough to have a knife in your pocket when trying to board a plane why should I have any guilt, right? Seriously... you remembered your boarding pass, but forgot the knife clipped to your pocket? Can't claim ignorance, 9/11 made it an obvious foul.
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While this may often be the case, it is not always the case and I've been the victim of a different version of this caused by airport security itself. In brief, airport door security scanned all of my bags and then did a physical check of my knives. They (not me) then did not put all of the knives back in the 'to be checked' bag. Instead, they dumped one of my newly purchased (trip souvenir) knives into my carry on bag. Of course, main security then caught it and confiscated it. I had purchased a Wine Master at the Victorinox store on the Matterhorn in Zermatt and airport security effectively gave it away. Perhaps I was 'fool enough' to not unpack and repack all of my luggage (just to be sure) while blocking the airport entrance, but it wasn't really practical to do it. I hope you never experience this. While it was outside of the US, I'm not sure I could guarantee it would never happen there.
 
eveled said:
There should be a way to secure it and return it after the flight.
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Unfortunately, that is not really practical. Nationwide, TSA detected (not confiscated) over 6500 firearms last year. It wouldn't surprise me if other items, such as knives, easily numbered 100,000, or more. Imagine how many TSA workers it would take to secure and catalog all of the surrendered items.

We have to remember that passengers have other options than to surrender a knife to TSA. They can go back to the ticket counter and check their bag, take the item out to their car, leave it with a friend, or even mail it to their destination. The items aren't really "confiscated" in the true sense of the word. They are surrendered to TSA, typically because the passenger doesn't have time to do anything else with it. The bottom line, is that people need to take responsibility for their own actions. You can't really blame TSA for not letting someone board a plane (train, whatever) with some type of a "weapon".

Items that people accidentally leave at a TSA checkpoint (laptops, phones, etc) are turned over to the airport Lost and Found Department.

Countries other than the USA, have their own rules, and they are all different.
 
If that was a Crack your lock wouldn't work as good as it used to.
Looks to me like a grimy edge. See if you can clean it.
 
I am not sure if it is a crack or not. That is the border between two pieces of metal. I am not sure if it is supposed to be that way or if that is a fracture in what was once a single piece of metal. I can definitely feel it with a pick. It isn't dirt or grime. The lock seems to work fine. The blade has a small, tiny bit of up and down play in it, but nothing major.
 
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