Posted on 06/29/2018 4:12:46 AM PDT by marktwain
Right after 9-11 I went to visit my son at Fort Bragg. At the motel I was unloading my carry on bag and my son saw a .357 hollow point round drop to the carpet. We marveled that it made it past TSA. So he kept it for good luck when he was going to be deployed to Afghanistan, this was Dec. 01. Well he got in trouble for having that round and had to go to gun safety training. Before this visit with him I had traveled by car to look for land to buy in Nevada and carried my pistol with a bag of bullets. I took the gun out but forgot the bullets. The bag of bullets was in my carry on the whole trip to North Carolina and back. I just kept thinking how they missed that and thankful for me that they did.
Cool. Is it chambered for the original .455 cartridge or one of the ones in .45 ACP?
L
For a pure hypothetical, if the checked bag gun was not detected. There are many ways people might approach this serious problem
After arrival at the destination, it would be unwise attempt to take the pistol back via an airline. A person could ditch the ammunition, rent a car, take the gun to Vermont, where you find a gun shop that will send it back to a gunshop in their home state.
They could attempt to change their flight to start in Pennsylvania, or another state with sane gun laws, and check the gun legally in that state on the way back to where they came from.
They could turn yourself into the police. This would likely result in prosecution.
They could field strip the firearm to parts, and ditch the parts in various places.
Just a few possibilities. I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.
Yep - a veritable spate of rare events...if we knew how bad they really were, we’d probably take our chances without them.
It’s an original, complete with a leather “flap” holster that my father brought back from Australia at the end of WWII. He was in charge of Naval Procurement in Melbourne for four years. He enlisted in the Navy right after Pearl Harbor when I was a little over one year old. When he came home, I was five.
I’ve fired the Webley with ammo he brought home with it, but it now has a broken leaf spring, the one that holds the stirrup closed. I’ve seen that there are places where I can get a replacement spring, but I’ve never taken the time to order one.
That’s a fine old piece you’ve got there. It’d be fun to put it back in working order. Although it might be tough to scare up any quantities of the cartridges.
Great story behind it, too.
Best,
L
You got it! Rent a car, drive safely to PA, go to a gun shop and have it shipped home. Take the hit on the Germany trip (and it’s becoming a shithole nation anyway).
I think it is kind of interesting that someone in this day and age might be packing a break-top revolver as a defensive handgun. I'm no spring chicken, and - collectors aside - I associate those things with people who were senior citizens when I was in high school. I suppose some are still in use because they were stolen, had for peanuts or just what someone had squirreled away...
But I like to think that "Granny" forgot that she had the family pistol in her purse because she was worried about Tweety being in the baggage compartment when she went to the airport to travel in one of those infernal flying machines.
People still fly the unfriendly skies? After I changed careers I haven’t set foot in an airport. I don’t miss it either.
North American Arms just came out with a top-break .22 magnum.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/02/jeremy-s/gun-review-naa-ranger-ii-break-top-mini-revolver/
A tip-up revolver?
As a collector and cowboy action shooter I use my .38 S&W topbreaks for side matches. The bullets are so slow I can see them travel down range.
Might kill you. Might bounce off your skull.
Not my choice as a carry weapon
Fun to own and play with though.
“The TSA never fail to trumpet their so-called successes which usually involve legal gun owners being forgetful.”
As if they prevented 93 hijackings. Bull Obama...these TSA heroes just succeeded in stealing guns from hapless travelers.
Reason # 246 why I won’t fly.
99.999% of these are just business travelers who drive around with their firearm and forget to remove it when they get to the airport. Stupid, yes. But the TSA’s not exactly stopping terrorism here. Good on them for finding them, though.
“Don’t ever go to NYC for ANY REASON!”
HERE HERE
Add to that MA and NJ. There are “unfriendly states” then there are direct portals to hell. These places don’t operate like the US. They have totally different laws and cultures and should no longer be considered part of the US.
“People still fly the unfriendly skies? After I changed careers I haven’t set foot in an airport. I don’t miss it either.”
When I was working I used to have to fly all the time. The memories of 6am on Mondays and 5pm on Fridays at O’hare almost makes me physically ill. And that was all before the TSA crap. No way in hell anymore.
The principle of rare occurences comes into play when you encounter a TSA slob who actually knows what he is doing.
Looks like an old Iver Johnson .32 or .38.
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