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Or check a metal case with a lock the TSA can't open: buy a flare gun (legally a firearm, cheaper than normal guns), declare it, and have your other valuables i
by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Or check a metal case with a lock the TSA can't open: buy a flare gun (legally a firearm, cheaper than normal guns), declare it, and have your other valuables in the same bag. Legally firearms must be in checked luggage, without ammunition, in hard cases (not soft bags), locked by a mechanism only the owner can open.
But unless you travel with valuables quite often it is definitely cheaper to ship it insured.
- swimfar 6y agoThis sounds like a better idea than flying with AR-15 parts. Less likely to scare people, and less likely to raise flags or get put on some list.
- panopticon 6y agoI feel like a flare gun is more likely to scare than a lower receiver. A flare gun immediately looks like "a gun" whereas a block of metal doesn't look very threatening (assuming you don't have a tacti-cool one with skulls and garbage on it). I only flew with a stripped lower once, and the baggage attendant at the Delta counter had to wave a TSA agent over because they did not believe it was a firearm. I never had an issue checking a handgun though.
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y agoMore likely to scare, but since it's in a sealed case and looks like a firearm it's easier to get the attendant to accept that it is a firearm when checking it. It matches their expectations of what a gun should look like. And since it's in a sealed case nobody unexpected will see it anyway, so scares are unlikely.