https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/922
(e) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to deliver or cause to be delivered to any common or contract carrier for transportation or shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, to persons other than licensed importers, licensed manufacturers, licensed dealers, or licensed collectors, any package or other container in which there is any firearm or ammunition without written notice to the carrier that such firearm or ammunition is being transported or shipped; except that any passenger who owns or legally possesses a firearm or ammunition being transported aboard any common or contract carrier for movement with the passenger in interstate or foreign commerce may deliver said firearm or ammunition into the custody of the pilot, captain, conductor or operator of such common or contract carrier for the duration of the trip without violating any of the provisions of this chapter. No common or contract carrier shall require or cause any label, tag, or other written notice to be placed on the outside of any package, luggage, or other container that such package, luggage, or other container contains a firearm.
Interesting. Wonder how they get past this?
If you fly Delta, protest such tagging, ask to see a supervisor, and get the name of the person who will not agree to your demand to not mark your bag.
Be calm, polite, firm, and call your lawyer as soon as you get home. By their actions, they have endangered not just your luggage, but your person.
If I was arguing your case, I would demand $15,000 cash or $50,000 in flight credits to settle. They would pay it (after about 20 billable hours of "The Lawyer Dance.") because it would cost them at least that to fight it.
BTW, what does the tag look like.
Oops!
I see bonus miles in someones future, and potential lawsuit if can prove harm
Just searching on the entire last paragraph...
“No common or contract carrier shall require or cause any label, tag, or other written notice to be placed on the outside of any package, luggage, or other container that such package, luggage, or other container contains a firearm.”
...pulls up numerous references from the NRA-ILA to the BATFE.
I think you nailed it. Delta is in violation of federal law.
I think common carriers and contract carriers are delivery service companies like UPS, etc., not airlines, which are passenger carriers.
Uh-oh! Somebody at the airline needs to fix this and follow the law.
That was my understanding. I havie traveled with firearms since the early nineties.