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one hack you can use in the US (admittedly with a lot of overhead) if you're worried about tampering with checked bags, loss etc. is to check in a firearm insid
by maximente 8y ago
one hack you can use in the US (admittedly with a lot of overhead) if you're worried about tampering with checked bags, loss etc. is to check in a firearm inside of a particular bag with other expensive goods.
the requirements (law) specifically states that only YOU may carry the opening mechanism for the case, and it must be a hard case. sure they might ask you to open it, but it will be tracked with great vigor, must be in a hard case, and only you can open it.
- wingspar 8y agoStarter pistols can be used too instead of a ‘real’ gun. At the destination they keep the bag secure for you to pickup, no getting it off the baggage carousels. Of course some destinations won’t let you have a gun...
- heelix 8y agoAmmo works too. Worked at a shop where they would have us transport a 1U server in a case that also held a single .22 round. You would fly to the location, pick up the server, and hand the bullet to the person working the desk to discard. Got the occasional dirty look, but prototypes were never lost. Empty case could be checked on the way home.
- wl 8y agoThat helps protect your baggage from theft; it doesn't protect your baggage from damage.
- zkms 8y agoThat's what the Pelican case (with a serious padlock on it) is for.
- anticensor 8y agoTSA (or equivalent travel agencies) can force that locked hard case to be just large enough to cover the arm and its ammunition and not all the baggage.