Another Shakacon presentation, this one from Deviant Ollam. The short answer: fly with firearms.
Security consultants have expensive gear when they travel, and because of TSA regulations increasingly have to “trust people with questionable ethics”. Deviant’s bags used to get opened a lot: by the TSA — and by others. Once on the way a conference all his lock-picking gear got stolen. After that he decided there has to be a better way. And sure enough … there is.
Federal standards for transporting firearms in your checked luggage:
- your luggage needs to have a hard case
- the weapon has to be declared on check-in and unloaded
- you need to lock it yourself, and it must have a non-TSA lock
w00t!
It’s not just”functional” firearms. Flare guns, starter pistols, replica weapons … all of these fall under the same rules.
Deviant’s full presentation has a bunch of additional tips — for example, carrying a print out of the rules. Here’s a video of his presentation from CarolinaCon earlier this year.
Deviant Ollam – Packing & The Friendly Skies from CarolinaCon 2009 on Vimeo.
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