The airport rent-a-cops are a PC joke.
6/2002 I accidentally smuggled 6 rounds of 357 and a pocket knife in a backpack carry on ... found it the next day in my bag. People make mistakes but they really should have caught that stuff too.
I've never forgotten to take stuff like .38 hollowpoints out of my purse, or pocket knives out of my pockets, but I have forgotten a book of matches in my purse. Nobody every found that...coulda lit off my shoes with them.