{"id":848,"date":"2009-06-11T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T02:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=848"},"modified":"2009-06-11T19:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T02:55:48","slug":"packing-and-the-friendly-skies-deviant-ollam-on-how-to-be-able-to-really-lock-your-luggage-and-avoid-those-horrible-tsa-approved-locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/06\/11\/packing-and-the-friendly-skies-deviant-ollam-on-how-to-be-able-to-really-lock-your-luggage-and-avoid-those-horrible-tsa-approved-locks\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing and the friendly skies: Deviant Ollam on how to be able to really lock your luggage and avoid those horrible &#8220;TSA-approved locks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Shakacon presentation, this one from Deviant Ollam.\u00c2\u00a0 The short answer: fly with firearms.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Shakacan Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shakacon.org\/images\/shaka1p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"170\" \/>Security consultants have expensive gear when they travel, and because of TSA regulations increasingly have to &#8220;trust people with questionable ethics&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Deviant&#8217;s bags used to get opened a lot: by the TSA &#8212; and by others.\u00c2\u00a0 Once on the way a conference all his lock-picking gear got stolen.\u00c2\u00a0 After that he decided there has to be a better way.\u00c2\u00a0 And sure enough &#8230; there is.<\/p>\n<p>Federal standards for transporting firearms in your checked luggage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your luggage needs to have a hard case<\/li>\n<li>the weapon has to be declared on check-in and unloaded<\/li>\n<li>you need to lock it yourself, and<em> it must have a non-TSA lock<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>w00t!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just&#8221;functional&#8221; firearms.\u00c2\u00a0 Flare guns, starter pistols, replica weapons &#8230; all of these fall under the same rules.<\/p>\n<p>Deviant&#8217;s full presentation has a bunch of additional tips &#8212; for example, carrying a print out of the rules.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a video of his presentation from CarolinaCon earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3923535&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3923535&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/3923535\">Deviant Ollam &#8211; Packing &#038; The Friendly Skies<\/a> from <i>CarolinaCon 2009<\/i> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Shakacon presentation, this one from Deviant Ollam.\u00c2\u00a0 The short answer: fly with firearms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[313,371,373],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-sciences","tag-security","tag-travel","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}