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Recently there have been some questions about air travel...here is a link to answer all your questions:
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/ ... items.shtm

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So Doc, when you travel by air, I take it you have knitting needles, metal scissors with sharp tips but a blade length of less than 4 inches and screwdrivers and other sharp or heavy "tools" less than 7 inches in length?

Hmm, they ban "Realistic Replicas of Explosives". There goes the putty I was planning on mucking around with :( .

Funny, Australian regs seem much stricter, I remember a case when some nail scissors had to be put in the check-in luggage. I get the feeling they don't like screwdrivers either.
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Th232 wrote:So Doc, when you travel by air, I take it you have knitting needles, metal scissors with sharp tips but a blade length of less than 4 inches and screwdrivers and other sharp or heavy "tools" less than 7 inches in length?

Hmm, they ban "Realistic Replicas of Explosives". There goes the putty I was planning on mucking around with :( .

Funny, Australian regs seem much stricter, I remember a case when some nail scissors had to be put in the check-in luggage. I get the feeling they don't like screwdrivers either.
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Strange enough, they didnt include "Stealing your stuff" in the 'What we do' section of their website. :confused:

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cheez wrote:Strange enough, they didnt include "Stealing your stuff" in the 'What we do' section of their website. :confused:

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Th232 wrote: Funny, Australian regs seem much stricter, I remember a case when some nail scissors had to be put in the check-in luggage. I get the feeling they don't like screwdrivers either.
Their knife / sword laws are stricter too compared to Canada and the US, Gun laws might be too ( I have no idea on that). So it kinda make sense that would be more strict when it came to airport/plane security.
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So did I read that right,you CAN carry on knives with a blade length of less than 4 in now?
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J Smith wrote:So did I read that right,you CAN carry on knives with a blade length of less than 4 in now?
Yup as long as the connect in the middle. Why are scissors always alowed on planes when nothing else is? I have a pair of scissors that dissconnect in the middle which essentially means it's two knives, I can carry that on a plane but can't carry a swiss army classic. I wonder if a leatherman qualifies as a "Tool (seven inches or less in length)".
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J Smith wrote:So did I read that right,you CAN carry on knives with a blade length of less than 4 in now?
Only if they are plastic rounded butter knives. {ImageThinks of a whole untapped market of tactical butterknives...hmmmm}
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Man I could find so many loopholes in those stupid rules. I do not know about you guys but I do not feel any safer on a plane with all that baloney. Someone could still snap your neck or whatnot if they wanted to kill you, or eat a bunch of explosives and blow up the plane.

They just don't get that people are the problem, not weapons.
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Chucula wrote:Someone could still snap your neck or whatnot if they wanted to kill you, or eat a bunch of explosives and blow up the plane.
Talk about killer heartburn.
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