First Time Flying on Plane with Firearm ???

[J]

Calm down everyone.

[Wulf202]

I got chastised by tsa for making them cut my lock....

Then again I know a guy who had to get a tsa approved case for a blue gun at the last minute.

[KestrelBike]

Frontier is awesome for flying with Firearms. I've had different "procedures" with gatecheckers, but never any real problems. DO NOT USE A TSA LOCK FFS! Use your own lock that only you have the key/combination to. Declare the firearm at check-in. They bring you to the little backroom where the TSA dude scans for explosives or whatever, while you watch him. He says "ok it's clear, lock it up" and you do, then you walk away to your gate. You do not need a trigger/chamber lock. You only need the weapon to be in a locked hard case.

[KestrelBike]

Yes, even a stand alone case. You do not mark as firearm and you do not use a TSA lock. The people that "need to know" probably have a way to tell it is a firearm from the tag issued... but they don't want the baggage jockeys on the runway to know what is inside.

like this a-hole lol http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...om-passengers/

[Monky]

Be prepared for additional security screening as you go through TSA, I'm 'randomly' selected each time. Of course the last time I flew I got my whole plane sent to the 'penalty box'


Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.

[KestrelBike]

Of course the last time I flew I got my whole plane sent to the 'penalty box'

Ok well you can't just leave it like that without a story.

[FLIPCO]

Be prepared for additional security screening as you go through TSA, I'm 'randomly' selected each time.

I'm not worried about additional individual screening / pat downs as I have an internal heart defibrillator inside my chest wired to my heart so I am supposed to be pat down by TSA and can't go through the xray scanner myself

[2008f450]

Has anyone flown into LAX (Los Angeles International) with a firearm? I will have to in July. Any info will be helpfull.

[KestrelBike]

Has anyone flown into LAX (Los Angeles International) with a firearm? I will have to in July. Any info will be helpfull.

I can't imagine that the destination is ever an issue, unless you've been a bad boy and get arrested on the way over. Baggage is baggage at the back end and as far as I know, never inspected.
Now, Flying *out* of LAX, that's a different question but I don't think it'd be too different than flying out of any other airport.

[Hound]

Not a repost but there is additional info over on this thread:

https://www.ar-15.co/threads/133635-...Trust-Question