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TopicThe TSA broke my luggage lock and went through all my stuff.
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11/08/19 10:59:36 PM
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ultra magnus13 posted...
darkknight109 posted...
Kyuubi4269 posted...
GreenKnight127 posted...
It seems illegal.

It probably is, but who's going to take the government to court for trying to intercept turrurists?

You should file for damages though.

It's not illegal and you would get absolutely nowhere with a lawsuit. You have no legally mandated right to air travel; it's a privilege and you voluntarily surrender some of your rights - like the right against unreasonable search and seizure - when you purchase your ticket. Every airline I've ever flown with that goes through the US pretty explicitly states in the "Checked Baggage" section to leave your luggage unlocked, because the TSA can search it for any reason at all and they have the authority to break any locks they encounter on the luggage or on anything within it.

Dynalo posted...
adjl posted...
So buy a cheap gun just to stick in your luggage so you can supervise the TSA's search of it. An interesting solution indeed.


Doesn't seem particularly effective at solving the original problem though.

Even if TC was there for the search, they still would have demanded to open and go through the books. I'm honestly not sure what the policy would be at that point if you tried to stop them.

Unless, of course, your plan is to hope they just won't search your bag because it's way more of a hassle for them. Or you're really really concerned about replacing a cheap luggage lock.

You'd be amazed at how far "it's too much of a hassle" will get you with security.

I'm a martial arts instructor and I used to travel with illegal weaponry in my checked baggage. Not "illegal" as in "you're not allowed to fly with this"; "illegal" as in "I shouldn't be allowed to have this at all." Every time I got asked about it (which only happened about half the time), all I had to say was that I was a martial arts instructor on the way to a training course and they'd wave me through. One guy hilariously told me that I should carry a copy of my black belt certificate with me when travelling, before pawing past two illegal weapons in my suitcase and saying "otherwise, I'd probably have to seize those" while pointing at my sai (a completely legal and unrestricted weapon that you can buy at any martial arts supply store). After that encounter, I'd just show security a photo of my black belt "diploma", which was a generic certificate that anyone could get printed up at a print store, given that there is no national accreditation board for black belts (also, it was entirely in Japanese, so it could have been a recipe for ramen for all any of the security staff knew) and that was good enough to forestall any further questioning.

I did eventually have to stop doing that when I ran into a security guy who was a little more on the ball than most and came close to seizing the illegal stuff I was carrying. He also bought the "martial arts instructor" excuse, plainly because he didn't want to have to fill out the paperwork for seized items, but it was a closer call than I was comfortable with. Also I'd moved in recent years, meaning it was easier to drive to the seminars I usually attended, so I just stopped flying with my gear. In my defence, I find it incredibly stupid that some of my training weapons are banned despite the fact that I live in a country where firearm ownership is legal.


What training weapons are illegal?


Oddly enough nunchucks are illegal in many states iirc.
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