More proof that the TSA is trying to kill us

[FN FAL]

Machinegun on a key ring?

Believe it or not, I was reading a post on www.subguns.com a while back where one of the posters was explaining how he took a key ring full of machinguns through TSA screening and onto a flight and was never stopped. It seems with all these stories, that airline pilots with flashlights and toe nail clippers are the big threat to aviation security.

To explain how a person could possess a key ring full of machineguns is quite simple. HK sears in most cases are the BATF registered part of HK machineguns (the alternate to this would be a registered reciever or registered trigger pack). This would be the serial numbered part that requires BATF approval and is considered "the machinegun" when it comes to the technicallity of lawful possession. The sears are small and have an area in them that would allow someone to slip them onto a split ring commonly used for key rings.

This individual was the lawfull registered owner of the sears and had his form 5320's in with the BATF, allowing interstate travel with them. Obviously, if these sears are not installed in an HK trigger pack and attached to an HK rifle with a full auto bolt, they appear to the layperson as just a small piece of metal. In regards to the BATF, and NFA firearms laws, they themselves are considered machnineguns.

I personally don't know the guy...I had read the post on subguns and found it interesting.

BTW, it is lawful transport registered machineguns as checked in luggage on an airliner, just as one would any other firearm.

 

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i slip mine behind the binding of my jeps chart, between the metal and the outer skin, its masked by the binding there, no one's noticed/said anything about it yet

I also carry contraband metal into security, but I'm dang sure not going to say where on a public forum.

The metal is about .030" thick, 1.5" wide and 14" long. It could be sharpened into a knife, or just pointed to make a dagger. It is neither, but it could be.

Security is a JOKE

 

[vetteracer]

I jumped on NWA pre 9-11 to meet some friends in MIA for a scuba diving trip. Had my dive bag and a small personal bag. I had a 14 inch dive knife with a small hammer on the handle in my bag. Was missed by security 3 times. And this was all in the cockpit when I was jumpin.

TSA is such a joke, knee jerk reaction. It is no more efficient then it was 10 years ago.

This is one of the reason people are not flying. They cannot take the Gestapo, rude, cattle chute shuffle lines, long waits, talking their shoes off, being treated like a criminal, scared they are going to miss their flight due to finding a nail clipper. It goes on and on.

Fix this, and people will start to fly again.

Mark

 

[C425Driver]

On a recent trip through Grand Rapids, I witnessed my tax dollars at work making our airports safer. As we were leaving the terminal, we walked by the TSA agent who was guarding the exit, supposedly making sure that no one would try to sneak in through the out door. Was he monitoring the exit? No. Was he reviewing procedures? No. Was he scanning for potential security threats? You guessed it. He was, however, sitting there diligently sorting his M&M's by color. He seemed to have relatively few green M&M's as compared to yellow M&M's and I wanted to get out of there before the full nature of this security issue was realized.

What a joke!

 

[vetteracer]

C425driver,

That seams to be the norm VS the exception. That is what you get with any large rudderless government operation. If you were in the private sector you would be fired. Seams that many of these government jobs are homes for misfit toys. All on our tax dollar. I wonder how many people in this country actually make there living from the private sector, pay taxes and have a revenue-creating job. Oh yeah it is 35%.

Mark

 

[prodigal]

On a trip last week to PWM my FA had her bag taken apart because the x-ray revealed a 3 inch allen wrench stowed in an internal compartment she didn't even know existed, along with the spare roller wheel which came with the rollaboard. Oh btw, she had been carrying this bag for some 6 months with no problem. Now the traveling public can rest easy knowing there is one less allen-wrench toting middle-aged flight attendant out there threatening America's security. Institutional idiocy.

 

[JD2003]

Strikes me as odd that these people make 40 to 80 thousand dollars a year for the jobs they do. Meanwhile the people that are entrusted with the equipment often make less than that or are facing pay and benefit cuts.

If anybody should have been federalized after 9-11...it should have been airline workers.

I ask myself...what are they doing about shoulder fired rockets...how about lasers?...why do minimum wage rampers do the overnight security checks on the aircraft?

 

[Inconceivable]

When I was furloughed I used the "displaced airline worker" clause to get hired as a Supervisor at TSA in MCO back in the summer of '02. It was a $68k gig, which would have really helped alot with the bills.

Long story short, I walked out of class on the third day--my mind was litterally SCREAMING at the absurdity/insanity/stupidity of what we were being told. The straw that broke me was that we had to frisk everyone--but not in the "bathing suit region" and to "be sensitive of the (fat folds) of larger travellers".

Yet they get p/o'd when I ask them to change their gloves when inspecting my toiletry kit after they just hand sorted dirt underwear belonging to Cletus from the Ozarks.

 

[cforst513]

i recently took a flight from columbus, oh (CMH) to orlando (MCO) and found that in the terminal area, AFTER the TSA security checkpoint, you could go into any of the other terminal shops in CMH and buy nail clippers. now, i know that NO ONE is going to hijack a plane with nail clippers, but it just goes to show you how big a joke TSA is. there is a shop right by the security checkpoint that sells them. amazing to me...

 

[hawg2hawk]

i recently took a flight from columbus, oh (CMH) to orlando (MCO) and found that in the terminal area, AFTER the TSA security checkpoint, you could go into any of the other terminal shops in CMH and buy nail clippers. now, i know that NO ONE is going to hijack a plane with nail clippers, but it just goes to show you how big a joke TSA is. there is a shop right by the security checkpoint that sells them. amazing to me...

I don't have any nail clippers with the little files still in them, but I bet I can beat somebody's a$$ with my 10 pound toshiba laptop.