Protect your port with a gun””on an airplane
Posted: 19:13 Tue 19 Jan 2010
The blog ponders the merits of using this to protect a camera, but it would presumably work as well for valuable bottles of wine.The Economists’s travel blog, Gulliver, in an article entitled [url=http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/01/advantages_gun_your_luggage]Putting a gun in your luggage[/url], wrote:Here’s a strange way to ensure your checked luggage doesn’t go missing on domestic American flights: put a weapon inside and declare as much to the Transport Security Administration (TSA). Under TSA regulations, the weapon must be packed in a hard-sided case and secured with an unbreakable lock. This means pilfering is impossible, and as a bonus the bag will be tracked more assiduously from check-in to baggage reclaim.
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- All I have to do upon check-in is tell the airline ticket agent that I have a weapon to declare...I'm given a little card to sign, the card is put in the case, the case is given to a TSA official who takes my key and locks the case, and gives my key back to me.
That's the procedure. The case is extra-tracked...TSA does not want to lose a weapons case. This reduces the chance of the case being lost to virtually zero.
