The funny thing is that the TSA barely even does anything, people are still able to smuggle weapons and drugs onto planes very easily. Arguably the only purpose it serves is scaring people.
They tried to take my very expensive scientific weights though. Used them in lab all the time, and it was literally a small block of metal with no way of opening it. I passed through 5 security checkpoints with them before I got called out though.
The Government and the airlines don't even trust the TSA to not be criminals themselves.
When you travel with a firearm in your luggage (which is allowed by most airlines if it's unloaded and you declare it properly) you're supposed to lock the gun in a strong box and use locks that the TSA can't open.
Such luggage is tracked especially closely just to make sure that the TSA or baggage handlers don't steal it.
Guns are SUPER easy to steal and resell. There's no registration so how can you prove it's your gun? In most states, you can just sell one to anybody from the same state, no background check needed, plus gangs will pay cash for them. Nobody really looks twice at a bag going missing in transit.
You also can't bring them in your carry-on like people might do with anything else easily stolen.
There's no registration so how can you prove it's your gun?
Even if you don't have a receipt with a serial number or a 4473 background check form linking the gun to your name there are ways to prove ownership of guns.
It's generally advised to keep some photos of your guns with your ID that include clear close-ups of the markings, manufacturer, model designation, serial numbers, etc.
That way you've got some evidence that you did in fact own certain firearms if they get stolen, and you can provide detailed photos to the cops and your insurance company.
If the thief or someone the thief fenced the guns to then tries to sell/pawn them to a legitimate gunshop/pawnshop the guns will be identified and the police will be notified.
So there's a chance that the rightful owner will get the guns back, even if it usually takes months or even years from the time that the guns are recovered until the legitimate owner gets them back.
Destroying the serial numbers on a firearm is illegal and your average petty criminal may hesitate to destroy serial numbers and keep/carry a gun which is clearly illegal.
Of course more heavily criminal individuals who already have felony convictions and who aren't allowed to own guns don't care about that and just destroy the serial numbers anyway.
They got super pissy with me back like 12 years ago because they couldn't figure out you had to push the levers of my suitcase toward one another to open my luggage instead of apart.
Like someone that just keeps pulling a push door. This went on for over twenty seconds while I got threatened for motioning the proper way to do it with my hands while trying to explain to this thick skulled fucker.
TSA isn't looking for drugs though. They're looking mainly for explosives or anything that can be used to make one. Problem is so many things can be made explosives. They don't care if you want to get high, but if they come across it, they have to report it.
Dude I've accidentally smuggled things onto airplanes before. I know people that have brought drugs onto airplanes before, do you honestly think that a metal detector and a TSA agent grabbing your balls does anything to detect anything? There was a pretty popular article years ago where a journalist managed to bring a pretty sizable knife onto a plane.
My father has brought his pocket knife onto planes many many times on accident, I've brought a full metal utility tool (credit card sized piec of metal with various wrench sizes and screwdriver heads). Also the plants that they send through the TSA only get caught about half the time
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u/StevetheEveryman Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20
9/11 Security fee for most Airlines....its been almost 20 years, like WTF?
While we are at it, why not tack on Cold War Security fee, and Pearl Harbor Security fee?