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My friend accidentally took a multi-tool through airport screening shortly after 9/11 and had to lawyer up to get the resulting shitstorm to go away (and he's w
by tlrobinson 11y ago
My friend accidentally took a multi-tool through airport screening shortly after 9/11 and had to lawyer up to get the resulting shitstorm to go away (and he's white and an American citizen)
On the other hand, I remember when I was a kid in the 90s and accidentally took my pocket knife (3" blade) through screening, and they found it but let me bring it on the plane...
- tomsaffell 11y agoI accidentally took a multi-tool (with several blades) through an airport security checkpoint 2 weeks after 9/11. It was found on my person, and confiscated. I was told I could collect it on arrival at the 'weird items' desk at London Heathrow baggage claim. When I arrived a Heathrow it was waiting for me in a padded envelope at the desk. I was flying out of Beijing, you know... that country with terrible human rights... To be clear: there are multiple human rights issues in China, many of which are far worse than the US. Just not everything.
- RyJones 11y agoI used to take my CRKT M16-14 knife on the nerd bird SJC<->SEA round trip twice a week. Nobody cared. This was mid-90s until just before 9/11. I didn't try to hide it - just tossed it in the bin with my keys etc. https://www.copsplus.com/prodnum4396.php https://www.copsplus.com/prodnum4396.php
- fapjacks 11y agoWell, before 9/11 you didn't have to check your firearms. You could carry them on as long as they were in a case. Things were more reasonable back then.
- petemc_ 11y agoA lot of people wouldn't consider it reasonable to allow people to carry guns around, least of all on a plane.
- simoncion 11y agoIt turns out that many people have silly -yet strongly held- beliefs. :) shrug
- fapjacks 11y agoI can see how one might immediately jump to the conclusion that I said people bringing firearms on board an airplane is reasonable. The sentences are so close to one another. I can see how tempting it would be to do that. But just for the sake of argument, let's pretend I did say that. So... How do you feel about armed air marshals?
- zeveb 11y ago> Well, before 9/11 you didn't have to check your firearms. You could carry them on as long as they were in a case. Do you have a source for that? Because for as long as I can remember they have had to be checked, including in the 90s.
- URSpider94 11y agoAbsolutely not true. You haven't been able to carry a firearm onto an airplane for, pretty much, forever. You always could, and still can, check a firearm into luggage on a flight.
- fapjacks 11y agoAbsolutely true. In the 90s, I went to a regional shooting competition with a handful of other high school kids, and we brought firearms onto the plane.
- URSpider94 11y agoI'm sorry, but you are just wrong. The relevant US code is at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46505 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46505 -- it's been in place since the 50's. Security screening to detect weapons has been in place since the early 1970's, after a rash of hijackings in the late 60's. You must be mis-remembering.
- sib 11y agoI flew SwissAir first class in the '90's and they actually handed out branded Swiss Army knives to passengers on the plane... The good ol' days.
- alxndr 11y agoMy grandmother collected the silverware that airplanes handed out. Now we've got a pretty funny assortment of airline-branded metal knives.