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I have a 3.5inch Gerber. My brother is arriving at the airport tonight and I am going to go pick him up. Should I leave the knife at home?
 
You can leave the knife in the car, and you should be ok. Otherwise, you should avoid going thru any security check points. Most airports only have those at the boarding gates, not where you wait for people coming off the planes.
 
Only ticketed passengers are permitted through security last I checked.

You could probably go in armed to the teeth and not be bothered, but hey, I'm not a lawyer.
 
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As above, you are not going to get past security - hell, any airport I'm in my first considered action upon retrieving my bags is to open the bag, retrieve Sebenza and fixed blade and put them both back on my person where they belong. Never had an issue with it at all. Ohare, Kona, LAX, Phoenix, nowhere.

i've picked folks up wearing Sebenza in my pocket and fixed blade behind my hip at the Ohare international termina, sat in the bar and waited by the customs door for about an hour and a half, again, no problems.
 
Assuming the knife is otherwise legal to carry, you should be fine. Only ticketed passengers are allowed past the check point.

On the other hand, I would keep the knife out-of-site since airports are sensitive areas and someone might over-react.
 
Parker said:
As above, you are not going to get past security - hell, any airport I'm in my first considered action upon retrieving my bags is to open the bag, retrieve Sebenza and fixed blade and put them both back on my person where they belong. Never had an issue with it at all. Ohare, Kona, LAX, Phoenix, nowhere.

i've picked folks up wearing Sebenza in my pocket and fixed blade behind my hip at the Ohare international termina, sat in the bar and waited by the customs door for about an hour and a half, again, no problems.
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What length knife are you carrying into O'Hare? This is the ONLY airport where I ever was hassled about a knife and that was in the fall of 1980. My son and I were connecting to a flight to Milwaukee and had a very long layover so we had gone wandering through the rest of the airport. When we came back to the gate, I placed my Gerber Folding Hunter with a "Flick-it" attached in the dish and walked through the metal detector. A Chicago cop got all hot and bothered by the knife, even though I pointed out that the FAA police had accepted it without comment when I boarded at Washington National Airport. He said that the 3.5" blade was illegal in Chicago and that he wanted to arrest me, not just confiscate the knife. The American Airllines customer relations person intervened and boxed the knife up so that the aircrew could carry it and then deliver it to me on the ground in Milwaukee. You had best believe that I packed the knife in check-through on the way back, as I have done ever since. I stopped trying to carry pocket knives onto airplanes after that incident.

So, how do you carry a knife into O'Hare openly?
 
I drop -off and pick up at San Antonio Int'l at least twice a month. The pick-ups can require standing around for up to an hour. I have been wearing my 110 pretty openly as well as left pocket carry of a Vic SAK Champ and a small 2" Gerber clipped on my pocket. None of the cops and/or security people have said 'boo' about it though the 110 is marginally legal in SA at best. (Only in that I can rightfully tell them it is a work tool AND I live on a ranch in the Hill Country.)
Obviously I don't pass any check points.
 
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