Mom packed my carry on bag
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Try saying this three times fast........"Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport"
Looks like TSA officer thought it was a rifle.
Looks like TSA officer thought it was a rifle.
Haha - I was 20 feet away from being the guy in the article back in 1985.
It was April 1, 1985, and I had just moved to a new state. The moving van had unloaded that morning and the unpackers were not scheduled until the next day, so I carried a bunch of stuff to my new office. The office phone rang and it was my boss telling me there was an emergency in city X and arrangements were being made for me to fly there ASAP today. After a few minutes of total panic, I called the boss back, thanked him for jerking my chain so hard on the first day in the new office and rudely wished him a happy April Fool's Day. Except it was not a joke and the boss told me to get my carcass to the airport. I raced home, scrounged through moving boxes to find clothes and took them to my car; some of the stuff was crammed in a carry-on bag in the car's trunk.
Everything was a rushed blur until I got to the airport, picked up my ticket, and was walking to the security checkpoint. It finally dawned on me that the carry-on bag seemed awfully heavy. About twenty feet from the security checkpoint, I stopped at a bench and checked the bag. Under my hastily gathered clothes was ... my wife's loaded S&W N-frame .357 revolver!
Yep, the movers had refused to transport firearms, so my wife had put her HD revolver in the bag in the trunk of the car we had driven to our new residence and I had dumped clothes into the bag without looking.
It was April 1, 1985, and I had just moved to a new state. The moving van had unloaded that morning and the unpackers were not scheduled until the next day, so I carried a bunch of stuff to my new office. The office phone rang and it was my boss telling me there was an emergency in city X and arrangements were being made for me to fly there ASAP today. After a few minutes of total panic, I called the boss back, thanked him for jerking my chain so hard on the first day in the new office and rudely wished him a happy April Fool's Day. Except it was not a joke and the boss told me to get my carcass to the airport. I raced home, scrounged through moving boxes to find clothes and took them to my car; some of the stuff was crammed in a carry-on bag in the car's trunk.
Everything was a rushed blur until I got to the airport, picked up my ticket, and was walking to the security checkpoint. It finally dawned on me that the carry-on bag seemed awfully heavy. About twenty feet from the security checkpoint, I stopped at a bench and checked the bag. Under my hastily gathered clothes was ... my wife's loaded S&W N-frame .357 revolver!
Yep, the movers had refused to transport firearms, so my wife had put her HD revolver in the bag in the trunk of the car we had driven to our new residence and I had dumped clothes into the bag without looking.
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fishgutzy
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I can say that has never happened to me. But in this case, maybe the mother wanted to get him out of the house for a few years longer. 
Personally, I never travel with any bag that I have ever taken to the range.
I have to face a quick background check by TSA once because I forgot to wash my hands after before handling the protein powder bags for a trip. Traces from the guns I handled before set off the sniffer.
Personally, I never travel with any bag that I have ever taken to the range.
I have to face a quick background check by TSA once because I forgot to wash my hands after before handling the protein powder bags for a trip. Traces from the guns I handled before set off the sniffer.
Lucky you
. Forgot about a shield mag in my backpack, TSA found it, and my stomach dropped as I almost immediately remembered that I had a mag in there when the guy quietly asked "do you own any firearms?". To top it off, I was traveling with my boss. Thankfully he was Pro2A and didn't make a big deal of it since I was clearly ashamed of making such a mistake. To my surprise, TSA handled it quite well, albeit it is on record, and CMPD couldn't care less, as expected.Gun stuff never goes in my work bag and I triple check it every time now.
Guy is going on vacation with his new wife and the in-laws. Goes through security, security guy asks “what is that in your bag?” The guy gets this panicked look and starts to sweat. He answers “it’s a gun.” They take him and his luggage to a special place for further examination, the rest of the family is distraught, but don’t know what to do. An hour later they are reunited and continue on their way.
He didn’t have a gun in his luggage, it was a suction device for attempting to increase the size of his member and he really didn’t want to talk about it in front of the in-laws.
This is one of those “I know a guy who knows a guy who this happened to” stories, so grain of salt and all.
He didn’t have a gun in his luggage, it was a suction device for attempting to increase the size of his member and he really didn’t want to talk about it in front of the in-laws.
This is one of those “I know a guy who knows a guy who this happened to” stories, so grain of salt and all.