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I thought you good folks might find this interesting. This is a post on a "gun control" thread that got started somewhere else.
I guess it was a bit early in the morning for the ticket agent...
I feel confident that someone, likely the agent, would have snapped to before completing the transaction...
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Well, I have spent the last week at home in Texas where all I had to do was walk into the gun range and slap down 8 bucks for an hour of busting rounds in my S&W .357 ... Now I have to go back to the People's Republic of Illinois where I can't even fire the thing. Texas has it right.
As a side note the airline Agent in Indianapolis was going to let me carry my .357 ON THE PLANE WITH ME... LOADED... believe it or not. I told her I needed to declare an unloaded firearm in my checked baggage and rather than give me the little luggage tag, she pulled out a small 3" by 6" triplicate form that simply said "I swear I am a Law Enforcement Officer and am duly authorized to possess and carry a loaded firearm on my person." She asked me for two forms of ID and I would have been good to go...
I told her I wouldn't sign the form and then explained what I wanted to do.
Very bizarre situation. When she understood I wanted to carry the gun UNLOADED in my CHECKED luggage in a TRIPLE LOCKED hard sided case with NO ammunition, then it got complicated. I had to stand at the counter and open my suitcase, pull out the gun case, unlock all the locks, pull out the weapon and clear it in front of her to prove it was unloaded. All this at 4:30 in the morning in front of some very nervous looking passengers...
Somehow a very sleepy and irritated man waving a stainless S&W combat magnum at a ticket counter bothered them.
Anyway, if anyone wants to carry a loaded gun on a plane, give it a try out of Indy... tell them I sent you. I won't mention the name of the airline, but it starts with [snip]
I guess it was a bit early in the morning for the ticket agent...
I feel confident that someone, likely the agent, would have snapped to before completing the transaction...
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Well, I have spent the last week at home in Texas where all I had to do was walk into the gun range and slap down 8 bucks for an hour of busting rounds in my S&W .357 ... Now I have to go back to the People's Republic of Illinois where I can't even fire the thing. Texas has it right.
As a side note the airline Agent in Indianapolis was going to let me carry my .357 ON THE PLANE WITH ME... LOADED... believe it or not. I told her I needed to declare an unloaded firearm in my checked baggage and rather than give me the little luggage tag, she pulled out a small 3" by 6" triplicate form that simply said "I swear I am a Law Enforcement Officer and am duly authorized to possess and carry a loaded firearm on my person." She asked me for two forms of ID and I would have been good to go...
I told her I wouldn't sign the form and then explained what I wanted to do.
Very bizarre situation. When she understood I wanted to carry the gun UNLOADED in my CHECKED luggage in a TRIPLE LOCKED hard sided case with NO ammunition, then it got complicated. I had to stand at the counter and open my suitcase, pull out the gun case, unlock all the locks, pull out the weapon and clear it in front of her to prove it was unloaded. All this at 4:30 in the morning in front of some very nervous looking passengers...
Somehow a very sleepy and irritated man waving a stainless S&W combat magnum at a ticket counter bothered them.
Anyway, if anyone wants to carry a loaded gun on a plane, give it a try out of Indy... tell them I sent you. I won't mention the name of the airline, but it starts with [snip]
