Choice of Covert weapon on Jetliners

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Seth Thomas

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Placing this in JSP becuase it's our kinda of thang.

Knives are no more on Flights. what's your next choice for a covert self-defense weapon to be carried-on?

I've perferred a Bogen camera monopod. Heavy gauge aluminum, wrist lanyard, extentable(open areas, not passenger cabins). There's a quick release pan that can be used to mount a steel camera foot, or even something a little pointier.

Do ya'll think a V-gar could pass the so-called security inspection?

Time to start planning for our next flight, sadly enough.

-Seth
 
I stick with ordinary objects like pens, my plastic keychain holder that resembles a Chinese character and bears the same name as a missile.:)

I was talking with my stickfighting students after class, easy going middle aged folks who wanted a little exercise and a cultural activity. After class, one of them saw my Livesay Walkabout and asked about canes and legality.

I asked why and he said "If I meet a terrorist with a knife, I'm gonna beat the !@#$ out of all of them. Got nothing to lose." This from a man whose only martial art experience is tai chi and claims he's uncoordinated. :eek:

We came up with getting a cane or two and maybe a set of golf clubs. If one breaks, plenty more where that came from.
 
Don,
I think the V-gar will go past security, it is Ti, and not very big. Heck my watch has more Ti on it than that. Anything aluminum, or that key stick with the cord in the handle, which will be next on the list of Rearic Special Projects, right?

Take it easy,
Reed
 
Now is the time to think of incredibly intelligent and crafty Self-defense fellas.

If you are caught with a Garrotte, even one that is a non-edged weapon, you are going to Federal Prison. They will make no distinction between your desire for safety and another's desire for destruction. That's the way it goes.

The FAA has prohibited Kubotans and I see no reason why they would allow a Koppo Stick on the craft in pocket or carry-on.

Learn how to use leather and nylon belts. Learn how to use a jacket and learn how to use them well.

Learn the most brutally effective Hand to Hand Combat you can find. And use these improvised pieces of clothing/accessories to support that, to create openings, to blow a knife out of someone's hand...

When I mentioned a "Rigger Belt" in The Emerson Forum, I was not intending for that to be interpreted as a JSP BladeRigger Belt. I mean, literally, a Rigger/Rigging Belt you can get from Eagle, etc.
 
Reed:

"...Size matters not." There's more than enough metal in the V-Gar weight to set off a metal detector, to say nothing of the steel cable itself, or of the handle end. I wouldn't even try it.

FWIW, I wouldn't even try using one of my wooden eda-koppo sticks, especially since FAA has ruled the only CA airport in compliance with the new regs is SFO. For that, read "it already has one of those damnable molecular scanners that will show up nonmetallic items under your clothes, even your genitalia."

For this reason, I think my flying days are over.

REVISION: Now that I think about it, a Sure-Fire 9Z (6Z if your hands are small) with lanyard might do the trick--it serves a legitimate social purpose yet could ably function as an eda-koppo stick if used as Andy Stanford described in "Fight at Night."

One thing I won't change, though: until the fascism ends, I still won't be flying.
 
What about a mini-maglight? I always carry one to back up my SureFire 6P anyway. Seems to me it could be used as a mini kubaton if need be, and they should be a slam dunk to get thru security.

Just a thought
 
A Mini Mag-Lite should go through just fine. However, they're not even letting long keychains aboard, at least at Oakland (sorry, Jason!), so YMMV.

Like I've said before, leaving us naked before the wolves doesn't work on the street and certainly won't work in the air. My flying days are over.
 
On the other hand, the Maglite Solitaire is much smaller, and could be used like the JSP Pocket Meteor.
 
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