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Flying through Denver with a pistol - Question

Gunslinger

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I hope the mag partially inserted was unloaded. Otherwise, it is clearly illegal. Ammunition must be in a separate (completely) container or storage area.

I see they were all empty. No problemo...
 
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Butch00

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In October I flew from Fairbanks, Alaska to Maine, with 4 Handguns and Ammo in a
lockable case. I had no problem.
 

Gunslinger

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Is that a TSA or a specific airline thing? I'd seen that TSA allows it so long as it is packaged, i.e. not in the mags.

TSA. Separate from the weapon, so if the gun's cased, ammo in its commercial cartons is fine. Otherwise, has to be in a hard container--which does include magazines, but they would have to be in a container, as well. That is the pure letter of the law, so going a bit beyond isn't a bad idea because the average TSA employee's IQ is 73.
 

PavePusher

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Last minute tag-in....

I flew from Tucson to Salt Lake via Denver, just before Christmas. I had been up for about 48 hours prior to the trip, finishing some stuff at work so I could take the time off. When I checked in at Tucson (Southwest Air) I was so tired, I actually forgot to declare the Hi-Point .45 in my suticase. Oops.

Didn't even think about it until I was handing the terminal crew my boarding pass, and decided if I'd gotten that far, I'd just wait and see what happened.

Stopped in Denver for two hours, had lunch and a beer, got to Salt Lake. Did my normal post-luggage-claim stop in the toilet stall to re-arm, and went out to the road to wait for my father to pick me up. No problems.

So much for "security theater".
 
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