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This feels kinda wrong, but I have to keep in mind that these people chose to give up these items. From the TSA Blog (I cannot confirm if true) When prohibite

This feels kinda wrong, but I have to keep in mind that these people chose to give up these items. From the TSA Blog (I cannot confirm if true) When prohibited items come through the checkpoint, passengers are given options: 1) Take the item to the ticket counter and check it in your baggage or a box provided by the airport. 2) Many airports have a US Postal Service or other shipping services area where boxes, stamps and envelopes can be bought so you can ship your items home. 3) If there is somebody seeing you off, you can hand the prohibited item to them. 4) If your car is parked outside, you can take the item to your car.

bwhite 13y ago
In many places, none of these suggestions would help someone who realizes he is carrying a handgun. 1) There are guidelines for how the firearm must be shipped; simply sliding it into your checked baggage will not work. 2) Handguns are generally prohibited from being mailed via the USPS. 3) The person seeing you off may not be properly licensed to transport the handgun. 4) Storing a valuable object in a vehicle which is in long-term parking sounds like a bad idea. Municipalities which have strict theft-reporting requirements do not have exceptions for "I was out of town and didn't know that my car had been burgled."
- asperous 13y ago
  1 & 2 are true for handguns (as checked luggage, they have to be in a hardsided locked case for example.) but 3 & 4 I think would practically be the best route, despite some risks.
outworlder 13y ago
Aren't you already inside the security checkpoint when the carry on is checked for? How can one leave items at the car by then?
- korethr 13y ago
  In every airport I've been through, passengers and carry on baggage are checked before the you get past the checkpoint. Yes, the screening areas are usually roped off, but that's it. It's not terribly difficult for a TSA agent to have you step out of line and then lift a rope to allow you to exit the screening area. Yes, having to go back out to one's car and then return to the end of the line sucks, but it's probably better than having your stuff confiscated or being carried away in handcuffs.

bwhite 13y ago

In many places, none of these suggestions would help someone who realizes he is carrying a handgun. 1) There are guidelines for how the firearm must be shipped; simply sliding it into your checked baggage will not work. 2) Handguns are generally prohibited from being mailed via the USPS. 3) The person seeing you off may not be properly licensed to transport the handgun. 4) Storing a valuable object in a vehicle which is in long-term parking sounds like a bad idea. Municipalities which have strict theft-reporting requirements do not have exceptions for "I was out of town and didn't know that my car had been burgled."

asperous 13y ago
1 & 2 are true for handguns (as checked luggage, they have to be in a hardsided locked case for example.) but 3 & 4 I think would practically be the best route, despite some risks.

outworlder 13y ago

Aren't you already inside the security checkpoint when the carry on is checked for? How can one leave items at the car by then?

korethr 13y ago
In every airport I've been through, passengers and carry on baggage are checked before the you get past the checkpoint. Yes, the screening areas are usually roped off, but that's it. It's not terribly difficult for a TSA agent to have you step out of line and then lift a rope to allow you to exit the screening area. Yes, having to go back out to one's car and then return to the end of the line sucks, but it's probably better than having your stuff confiscated or being carried away in handcuffs.