uh oh I'm at the airport

^^^+1 to that. Everyone one campus seems to not carry a knife of any sort, except a few friends and maybe other more intelligent individuals.
-Barry-
 
Hmmm....somehow I think Brad was referring to guns, but maybe not....
I go to school in Southern Kentucky, and lots of guys--and some girls--carry knives on campus, every day. Several guys I know, myself included, even keep larger fixed-blades in their dorm rooms for hunting and whatnot...different place, I guess.
 
I stay away from airports and airplanes. This BS security just guarantees a harmful person that any good people are unarmed. I'd be much happier if EVERYONE was armed, OR AT LEAST willing to defend themselves. Tooo many people are just willing to lay down and be trampled, and at best, hope that it doesn't hurt too much. ...a little too handy for the forces that be, "good" or "bad."
 
i once accidentally traveled with a gerber compact sport AND my leek in tow as well as my utilikey which always travels in my wallet (they haven't caught it yet)
 
Tacticalpen said:
Right, I always bring a SurFire Defender (only got questioned once about it) and my trusty Tuff-Writer tactical / defense pen (nobody's blinked so far) but I feel a little bit like a dog with no teeth when flying.

I have a friend who wraps paracord on a large carabiner to make a poor-man's set of brass knuckles, I thought that was pretty inventive.

Anybody have any inventive solutions for protection while flying?
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3/4" dowel rod section about 2" longer than the width of your hand sharpened to a point on one and and reinforced with a coat of JB Weld?

Does JB Weld set off metal detectors?
 
FWIW most airport stores sell mailing tubes so you can send knives and other pointy things back to yourself if you ever are have the need.
 
Flying to Kansas City tomorrow for some work stuff. Makes me think. I got a laptop case full of gadgets, iPod, GPS, network cables and various other cable types. Bet you I'll be frisked down for carrying my AAA cell LED flashlight in my laptop case. We'll see how TSA reacts to my electronics vs. your weapons... :cool:
 
MikeH said:
A few years back, I got to my destination and opened my briefcase in the hotel room, only to find:

A 4.5" Cold Steel folder
A MTM Ammo Wallet full of 9mm JHP's
A fully loaded .38 Special speedloader

Apparently all of it sailed through the scanner with no notice at all.

This was at Birmingham International Airport.
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Alabama or England?
 
I do a lot of flying for my job, as do my co-workers. Since we're all technical/engineering types, we typically carry various tools and equipment depending on the job on the other side. The one constant we've noticed is that if it's shiny or easy to sell on Ebay, it either gets "confiscated" without a receipt or just disappears from your luggage. (After one of our guys insisted on a receipt, he got to spend a few hours in a windowless room while the company legal department made the TSA see the difference between asking for a receipt and making terrorist threats.)

After losing several hundred dollars worth of both personal and professional gear, we've begun fedexing the important stuff ahead to the hotel.

My personal EDC in-town is a Skeletool and a Surefire Backup. After replacing them both after the TSA, well, there's no kinder way to put it, stole them, I now hide a beat-up SAK Recruit and Streamlight Stylus Pro inside my suitcase. They're both look so beat-up I doubt you could sell them for anything.

There's nothing lower than a thief in uniform.
 
i got through with a benchmade 3550 auto i'd forgotten about a few months after 9/11, bought crapped when i stuck my hand in my pocket as we were coming in for the landing and i realized it was there. our tax dollars at work...

i frequently take my surefire 6P with me in my carry on and have never had a word said about it.

Winston
 
It will never happen in Singapore. They even ask you to walk barefoot to ensure the metal is only from your shoes, and then they'll scan through again your whole body with hand scanner.
 
Chris "Anagarika";6143575 said:
It will never happen in Singapore. They even ask you to walk barefoot to ensure the metal is only from your shoes, and then they'll scan through again your whole body with hand scanner.
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Same here in Aus.... It sounds as though think other countries reactions to 9/11 are more severe than America's :confused:
 
Tacticalpen said:
Anybody have any inventive solutions for protection while flying?
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Fred Perrin's coin purse / sap combo looks good. I've carried a few film cans of quarters through security several times without any questions. Not my first choice, but a lot better than nothing at all.
 
Tacticalpen said:
Anybody have any inventive solutions for protection while flying?
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Cold Steel has a new delta dart (glass-filled nylon) that has a cap that the darts fit into with attatchment rings on the cap tips. take some paracord or other strong line and make a shoulder carrying system to carry inder your shirt. ie: two shoulder loops for the two shoulders, a line between them and small amout of line hanging under the armpit secured to the Delta Darts.

I imagaine the two of those darts stabbing down from behind the clavicle and swished around may cut the tops of the lungs or even the aorta or heart of a terrorist!

------ Eric

Oops! sorry folks, forgot to add that the small steel loops in the cap should be replaced with strong string as well, might get detected going through security.
 
I think the ag russell funny folder sailed through because it folds up to be a rectangle. It looks like a memory stick on the xray device.
 
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