It doesn’t even make sense in checked baggage.
Unless you have coconspirators in the baggage crew. (Which IS possible, but only really likely in Moslem airports!)
It doesn’t even make sense in checked baggage.
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I suspect if it is ‘declared’, it is tracked and treated specially.
If not, baggage crew bandits can get it, like they do jewelry, etc. And you won’t know till too late.
“It doesn’t even make sense in checked baggage.”
Makes more sense than in your carryon ...