Will you still take a knife when you fly?

i will carry one in my baggage, along w/a properly stowed, tagged etc glock 27, w/ammo in a seperate bag, if it is legal to have a pistol where i am going - actuallly i will have a total of 4-5 knives if i travel w/wife- but would not try and sneak ANYTHING on an airline..


sifu
 
The FAA's website, indicates that knives may be placed in checked baggage. I would not be comfortable packing an expensive custom, but there are so many excellent knives in the moderate price range, that that will be the case on future flights.
 
A 2 AA cell maglight flashlight and a fountain pen, or 2 fountain pens with pointy nibs. Before I fly anywhere I will practice 2 hours a day for the preceding 2 weeks.

I'd like to using maglight in reversegrip for hooking in the right hand and the fountain pen in foregrip in the left hand for thrusting.

I will also get one of those keychain lanyards to wear my school ID around my neck, but I would cut most of the stiching so I could use it as a V-gar (bladerigger.com)

I will practice before I get on that plane. Next time I fly I will be able to put a fountain pen through someone's ribs with a left handed thrust, and slam my maglight through someone's skull. I will also practice my board breaking skill for power and I will spar or just practice on a friend if I can cant find a sparring partner.

If I can kill the hijacker, I don't really care if it kills me in the process. He may ice me, but he WILL remember me as the shmuck that stuck the pen in his neck.
 
Originally posted by komondor
Times like this call for creativity. On my person, perhaps tucked into a shirt sleeve, I will carry a piece of sharpened, uncooked lasagna noodle.
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LOL... that is a very "creative" idea you have there... now you need a weapon idea that uses tomato sauce :)

-PyroRadical
 
I have to fly to Baltimore next month (it was originally supposed to be this Sunday,:eek: but thankfully was postponed for budgetary reasons until next fiscal year). Guess I won't be wasting any mental energy trying to decide which knife to carry with me on board. Might even take the Utilikey off my keychain.:(

Everything that normally goes with me in my checked baggage (usually Spyderco and/or Benchmade) will still get packed.

Of course, with the long check-in times that airports are now going to have, it might be faster to drive.
 
I have had very little flying experience but i think that i concur with razor on this one....Leave em at home. Especially for the time being. Doesn't matter if you are talking metal, ceramic, or plastic even my keychain SAK will not make the trip.

As far as packing in checked baggage I will have to think about and probably call the airport, visit the FAA website and that kinda thing first.
 
I'm thinking a credit card and a steel-bodied, fine-point pen. I may not be able to take a knife on board, but I can still be creative.

I'm wishing now that I had picked up one of the Jones' Bros. G-10 knives when they were still making them. :(
 
Kutch, you are right about the Japanese Internment camps. Let's have a little perspective, however. The Japanese Americans were wrongly imprisoned, and their personal property was wrongly taken from them.

They were not, however, systematically tortured and murdered as the Japanese (and others) did to our POW's. It wasn't right, but it was far less wrong than what Japan did to us.

I will NEVER feel guilty about things that my country has done, and will NEVER apologize or concede any moral high ground.
 
I think this new law stinks, people who want to bring weapons on planes will do so regardless they will just be more creative. I'm sure all of us could sneak a sharp cutting object on board. I suspect that 99% of the time you could get one without being caught. Besides that what about carrying the cold steel abs tanto on your person? Furthermore lets face facts those people on the plane, died because they have been watching too much Ophra, less than 5 guys on a plane with box cutter and probably small knives and the passenger just sat quietly waiting to die. They didn't need to have guns or knives all they had to do was rush them all at once. Not even the most expert of knife fighters could have won against those odds.
 
Sorry about my last post, I was so busy being indignant that I didn't answer the post.

I love my cs voyagers, and they work great. I'll get a couple of extras, and they can travel in checked baggage.

I don't agree with the latest policy/law, but I will obey it.
 
Originally posted by steve1701d
Until it's legal again, I'll not take any chances carrying one on with me.
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Don't count on it. Freedoms abrogated by "higher authority, for the public good" are seldom--if ever--restored for any reason. I caught Limbaugh saying yesterday that even he doesn't agree with restricting freedom to defend freedom. However, he's wrong. We've been fighting a holding action for too long, and losing ground the entire time, particularly as we've allowed the statist bastards to define the terms--we need to regain freedom, and we may have to force their hand to do it. The only solutions (as I just posted on Razor's forum) are these:
1) A boycott by all those who value their lives enough not to entrust their defense to others, a la "Atlas Shrugged"; or
2) Massive civil disobedience, using Sanford Strong's slogan "My safety first, your feelings second."

For me, I'm with Ken: I won't be flying again. I never liked the bureaucracy that went with it then and won't tolerate more of it now.
 
I think it's our absolute duty to try and circumvent such a BS regulation, quite honestly. How many decades of air travel allowed knives without major incident? Just because some loonies that would have done what they did regardless of the 'law' used knives, we all suddenly roll over to such a ridiculous regulation? The terrorists won if we do. They attacked freedom and our answer is to give it a few kicks too? We should all be writing our representatives repeatedly about this. I have already, have you?
 
One need not support a policy to obey it if one does not wish to suffer the consquences when caught disobeying. That said, while I never knowingly disobey the law, I also will not be flying anytime soon if I can prevent it.
 
What's a guy to do? My wife won't let me check luggage since they lost our luggage a while back. I guess it's time to check again. It would be just too strange to go "knifeless."
 
I marvel at the wussification of
America.

Most of you are posting with your
timidity showing.

If memory serves, it is still your country.

You are knife people. If you don't rise to
the challenge, them whom?
If not now, then when?

Reread these posts. You are embarrassing yourselves.
 
This whole incident has got me in a very bad mood. The only weapons I own are two knives, one fixed blade and one folder, and a pair of knuckledusters. However, if someone could get me overseas, they'd be knee deep in dead terrorists 24 hours later. I am willing to start a slush fund to buy black market nuclear warheads from the former USSR. I am dead serious about this.

Needless to say, there is no question as to where my loyalties lie or how I feel about this dishonourable, shameful and abominable attack on my countrymen.

However, official government response is pi$$ing me off. Do we really need to figure out WHICH terrorist group is responsible?! Does it matter WHICH rogue nation/s back the attack and the terrorists?! Make that d@mn desert glow in the dark!!! :mad:

They are worried about gas prices! :barf: Give me a break! Use the neutron bomb, the oil wells will survive just fine. We'll take all we need for free.

It is too late to seek justice, too late to think about punishing them. Our body count is too high. We need retribution. We need to put the fear of God in these uncivilized sacks of sh*t! They need to be hurt so d@mn bad that they will personaly garauntee that no harm befalls a single American for the next thousand years!!!

But how does our government respond? By increasingly erroding OUR OWN PEOPLE's right and ability to defend ourselves! Treating Americans like the enemy! :mad:

This is turning my stomach. :barf:

It was the passengers' counterattack that kept the terrorists from getting that plane that came down outside Pittsburgh to its target. Those courageous Americans saved untold lives by their valiant and selfless action.

And you know what? If those other hostages had understood what was going on, I bet that none of those other planes would have reached their targets either. From this day forward, attempting to hijack an American flight will be an exercise in futility and suicide. We know what is happening now, and none of us will ever let it happen again.

We have the will, resolve and determination to defend ourselves. Even deprived of weapons our brave countrymen thwarted the terrorists plans. Give us back the right and means to defend ourselves. No terrorist could ever hope to hijack a plane with a hundred loaded pistols jammed in his face.

For the last time, AMERICA's OWN SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE NOT THE ENEMY!!!
 
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