Posted on 03/28/2017 8:53:03 AM PDT by rktman
It seems Delta Airlines pulled a fast one on this writer, talk radio host, commentator, and more importantly, all of us as the flying public.
Last week on these pages I wrote about an emailer’s experience flying on Delta airlines out of Norfolk, VA to St. Louis with a checked firearm.
It seems he had been given some information he had never heard before, and the process was different than he had experienced in the past. He was told his bag would be zip-tied before he could pick it up at his destination. Not only was he told it would be zip-tied, but it would also not be on the baggage carousel with every other regular bag. While the bag was not zip-tied, it did have a large “CAGPT” sticker slapped on it.
“CAGPT,” otherwise known in Delta circles stands for “Check and Give Protection to” and below the letters, it states, ‘Do Not Place on Baggage Carousel Belt.” This is the label usually affixed to bags containing high-value or fragile items. He was also told it was their new procedure for checked firearms.
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Bummer. Hopin it was a choice between shoulder vs. hip holster.
This new procedure sounds like an invitation to theft
LOL! You mean like the old flaming red stickers declaring “GUN INSIDE”?
This was looked at when it was first reported, and someone pointed out that marking a firearm in luggage in any way is a violation of Federal law. I guess no one has challenged Delta over it yet.
My guess is they are trying to prevent incidents like this: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/06/us/fort-lauderdale-airport-incident/index.html
They didn’t seem to implement it very well.
Yes.
It’s best to just use carry-on. But that brings different risks. ;-)
Reminds me of the Time I flew to Texas to do some hunting.
When I checked in they made me open my Rifle case to prove to them it was unloaded and had no Cartridges in the case.
The People in the other lines got real big eyes and were locked on the Rifle. Yeah People, you put Rifles in Rifle Cases...
I laughed, Citiots!
Some years ago, there was a short lived luggage service that would transport your luggage *before* you went on your airplane trip, so it would be at your destination, usually hotel, by the time you arrived. Likewise, they would pick it up from you before you returned home and deliver it to your door.
It seems to me that since so many normal gun carriers have more than a single gun, that there could be “gun cargo flights” that would transport *just* weapons, ammunition, and probably other stuff, keeping it under tight security at your destination until you could pick it up.
Flights would probably be done on a once monthly schedule at first, to a once weekly schedule if there was enough traffic.
As an added service, they could provide interstate license and law checks, to both insure you could legally travel to the other state, and to provide you a clear list of any unique gun laws you needed to know about.
They might even throw in package deals for gun ranges, hunting, hunting lodging, rental vehicles with gun lock boxes, etc.
No. Continental/United didn’t mark the bags at all when I traveled with a W. Maybe they do now?
“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 indicating that such package, luggage, or other container contains a firearm.” (27 C.F.R. § 478.31(b).)
How in God’s name would you get it through the TSA check point?
How in God’s name would you get it through the TSA check point?
Though I was being tongue in cheek, this actually happened at Seatac about 7 years ago.
My wife worked in one of those membership places the airlines allow flyers to “get away from the rif-raff”. It is inside the secured part of the airport. One day this “little old lady” came to the front counter with her purse and asked if they had any of those pay lockrs. They said they didn’t, but on further questioning, the lady eventually said something along the lines of, “I accidentally brought my gun and I know I’m not supposed to take it on the plane.” and proceeded to pull a .38 revolver out of her purse.
I don’t know what happened to her, but I know they called security.
I still say we should just issue a gun to everyone on the plane (well maybe a stun gun or bean bag gun to avoid depressurization). Terrorists wouldn’t screw around on our planes then!
If she was already past security, she should have just kept her mouth shut.
Yeah. But people are not very bright.
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