PSA on serrated flash light bezzle for those traveling

Just got busted at the Las Vegas airport...TSA guy knew about this light, his manager said i looked worn over and not to do it again...Funny thing is that they didn't look at my uzi pen!

http://www.opticsplanet.com/ors-nasc...683-88033.html

Basically the operator of the xray and manager said they knew what the serrations where for and that they cause a lot of damage to bones... I told him it's the best light for the performance and i thought the serrations for light dispersions when I had to crawl under the floor to work on the damn servers. Now, I travel with this pen everywhere, and they didn't even think about it...

http://www.opticsplanet.com/uzi-tact...eaker-pen.html

I hate vegas

The inconsistencies from airport to airport are amazing. Both DIA and Burbank were fine with the serrated bezel on my light.

hell, i travel with both of these to baltimore all the time...I figured if I could get em through there it'd be smooth sailing anywhere...I guess it all comes down to the agent on the scanner....No offense, but look for females!

not just airport to airport, but day to day

Vegas has never blinked at my fenix ta-21 despite multiple trips with it

nore has New Orleans, Los Angles, NYC, Charlotte or Jacksonville.

Hell, DEN didn't blink at a .40S&W round but LAX did not likey.

They just knew you were a bit..... Off. ;)

Denver blinked at my empty .45 casing, but allowed it through after digging it out to see. Like he said, it varies by person.

I'm kind of surprised that you can get empty .45 case on board. Suppose you have smuggled one of the all plastic digitally printed guns in your carry on. I would think having a casing is the hardest component to get, in order to build a bullet in the restroom.

*my imaginery friend* got a couple of casings into China as a souvenir for my cousin and my SOG flash II folding knife made it in ok, but couldn't make it out, chinese TSA doesn't even allow anything tactical in checked baggage. If not for my U.S. passport, I would be in chinese jail.

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Originally Posted by buckshotbarlow

Just got busted at the Las Vegas airport...TSA guy knew about this light, his manager said i looked worn over and not to do it again...Funny thing is that they didn't look at my uzi pen!

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Wait just a damn minute... Are you trying to say one or more TSA agents actually exercised common sense? I'm finding this whole story hard to believe.

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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns

Wait just a damn minute... Are you trying to say one or more TSA agents actually exercised common sense? I'm finding this whole story hard to believe.

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^This! Pics (video) or it didn't happen! [Coffee]

I carry the PT2, same bezel design, and the court house here in downtown Springs wouldn't let me through with it... The guy said that he didn't see a problem with it, but it was "policy": if it has *any* kind of bezel at all, it's not going into the courthouse...

That's kind of silly for their policy that they let you on with it with a warning. Either it's forbidden, or it's not. (and no, I'm not saying it should be forbidden, that's ridiculous... I fly with a surefire E2D defender and have yet to have a problem, knock on wood) I'd rather someone come at me with a crenelated flashlight than with a ballpoint pen or thin & stabbirific metal mechanical pencil.

Op's light is not scary.

I carry a cheap Coleman for work travel. Not sexy/tactical one bit but I also wouldn't care if it got lost/stolen.

To speak to those inconsistencies mentioned earlier: I just traveled through Las Vegas on May 4th through the 7th and carried a Fenix PD32 UE on my person and nobody missed a beat. Looks to have a nearly identical bezel to your make/model. So it's not just varying TSA from airport to airport but variances from day to day and hour to hour even at the exact same airport.

Ask for a receipt. Tell them it belongs to your company and you need some kind of documentation showing what happened to it. They don't have these forms, so they get bent out of shape. Stick to your guns and most of the time they will give it back to you and tell you to not do that again.

*Sigh*.... I remember flying with a 2.5 inch Spyderco in my pocket all through the 80s and 90s, 2 or 3 times a week. Nobody said a word.

I think this is may favorite of all of the rediclousness over flashlights and tiny knives.

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Scissors - metal with pointed tips and blades shorter than 4 inches are allowed, but blades longer than 4 inches are prohibited

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Legal - Attachment 58247

Dangerous - Attachment 58248

Both of these fit on a key ring. But are not allowed because of the blade.

I had this confiscated.

http://demandware.edgesuite.net/sits...m=fit&sfrm=png

And almost this one too. I took it back to my vehicle.

http://demandware.edgesuite.net/sits...m=fit&sfrm=png

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Originally Posted by TFOGGER

*Sigh*.... I remember flying with a 2.5 inch Spyderco in my pocket all through the 80s and 90s, 2 or 3 times a week. Nobody said a word.

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I remember the days when people would bring rifles in cases on to airplanes in the 60s and maybe into the early 70s. We flew out of Houston a lot when I was a kid and it was a common sight to see someone hand a rifle case to a "stewardess" for storage in the cabin.

This a real issue?

My $7 flashlight has a more aggressive bezel and I'd be pissed to leave it. Heck, they'd probably be pretty firmly oppossed to the Nebo I got for my wife.

https://www.nebotools.com/sample1.ph...78&mheight=378

This one has a spring loaded bezel that only retracts on impact.

https://www.nebotools.com/sample1.ph...78&mheight=378

Is that what those serrations are for? To cause bone damage? And here I thought they were stupid tacticool fashion statements. I'm going to hurt someone a lot more with standard Cross pen than the relatively blunt point on my "tactical" pen (which I look at as more of a glass break than anything else). Maybe I'll just go down to the kitchen gadget store and pick up a pair of stainless steel chopsticks ...

like i said...they didnt even bother to look at my uzi pen
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