Plenty of skydivers and base jumpers travel (with gear) to go jumping. The TSA might look at you funny* but there is certainly nothing illegal about carrying on a chute.
* Of course everything is always at the discretion of the TSA agent, they can prevent you from getting on a plane because they don't like the shirt you are wearing.
The key comment is at the end of course. A random TSA officer may decide it’s not allowed. Probably better not.
One of my main peeves—aside from the general which I mostly avoid with TSA Pre—is a hiking pole which I often want to use at a random destination I’ll just use carryon for. But it’s not allowed in carryon.
Sorry of. There are limits, it has to be yay big. Can't be too heavy. But those limits are (usually) administrated by the airline.
Otherwise if it is legal then bring it.
The reality is, if you want to bring something nefarious into a plane, you can do so. TSA mainly stops law abiding people and stupid people. And an enormous cost in time and money and safety.
The proper, legal way to transport a firearm while flying is in the bag.
Last time I did it (this was before 2001 and the police state hysteria we're in now) all that you had to do was get a little sticker for the bags handle at the check in counter (they asked us to show that the gun was unloaded.)
Not even a big deal.
There is no history of guns leaping up, loading themselves and killing people.
Flying with one in your carry-on is illegal for regular people. You can check one in your luggage but there's some special rules that sometimes the TSA and airline staff aren't familiar with (you must use a lock that is not TSA approved, you're not allowed to let TSA or airline staff borrow the key, stuff like that). The only time I traveled with a gun it was simpler (and cheaper!) to just mail it to myself.
They probably sell hijabs in the airport so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
However, here in the United States the TSA and cops have shown that they have no problem enforcing the laws against passengers who became criminals due circumstances outside their control.
There was an interesting case where a guy was on a flight from Utah to Pennsylvania with a gun. He was transporting it exactly the way you're supposed to when flying (declared at check-in, unloaded in a locked container, non-TSA approved locks) when his flight got diverted to New Jersey. Due to an airline mixup, he had to get his luggage and re-check it before getting on a later flight to his final destination. However by taking possession of his suitcase without applying for a New Jersey gun license he was committing a felony. After he went to check his bag and declared that it contained a firearm, the TSA called the port authority and he got arrested. Normally when people in NY/NJ get arrested for trying to check a firearm at the airport they take a plea deal but this guy ended up spending some time in jail (although the prosecutor let the case go after four months).
Hate having the TSA open up and steal items from your checked baggage in the US on domestic flights only? Throw a lower receiver into each bag. It's technically a firearm and so subject to the strict integrity rules requiring sealing at the ticket counter. You don't have to be a 2a die-hard or even have a single functional weapon to exploit this loophole.
Or you could get a backpack that expands to the same size as the largest domestic carry-on and skip checked luggage altogether.
Items you can't take in carry-on bags but are allowed in checked bags: alcohol, actual or improvised weapons.
Yes, you absolutely can fly with it. TSA has gone on the record, at least in local newspapers, stating that they defer to local police if they find cannabis. If it's for personal use, local PD won't do anything other than suggest you throw it away or else risk punishment if you're flying somewhere legal. I've researched this extensively before flying out of specific airports in legal states up and down the west coast and the story is always the same.
I've even had a TSA agent rummage through my carry-on in Oakland airport, pull out prerolls and buds, dig further to find the half-full water bottle I forgot I'd had, tell me they have to throw it away, and return my cannabis to me. I've flown with it entirely too many times to count, never attempting to conceal it, and have never had a problem.
The only time you're likely to run into trouble flying out of a legal state is if it looks like you're traveling with the intent to distribute.
And why would this be any more danger than of him using it while there?
Note that if declared, it's legal to transport unloaded in checked baggage in the US, and unless things have drastically changed the airline etc. isn't going to wonder if possession is legal for you at your destination.
* Of course everything is always at the discretion of the TSA agent, they can prevent you from getting on a plane because they don't like the shirt you are wearing.
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