Lucky for me I just flash my red diplomatic passport and my luggage doesn't even get searched. I would be a little hesitant to put out info on a public forum about illegally smuggling weapons onto commercial airlines. Even though my bags don't get searched, all my stuff is still in check luggage.Depends what you want to do with it. I carried a knive for almost 5 years without having it discovered. It was a hard plastic shiv. I also carry a montblanc refill which is a great defense weapon and you can even carry a garrote. But god help you if you carry a tiny nail knife or scissors.
I also like to buy local kitchen knives even in countries that freak out if you carry a hunting knife. Hell you can carry a axe in a place that will take away a switchblade in a heartbeat. For self defense, deep jabbing is more efficient than cutting anyways.
Bottom line you can buy an ice pick, utility blade or camp knife wherever you go and check it for the trip home.
I find that any cool knife instantly becomes "military equipment" subject to confiscation by any greedy customs or border agent
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:If you need an airplane shiv you just take the stewardess' tongue (razor sharp I hear) and tape it to your seat cushion (hard as rock) and then just stab yourself repeatedly the next time you get locked in the plane for 6 hours stuck on the runway.
On one of the trips I made last year to Florida, I forgot my Leatherman Wave in my Carry-On back pack and they never even caught it
Wow, nice job TSA. How they miss a chunk of steel like that is something.
Yeah, pretty reassuring isn't it? Times sure have changed though. I remember as a kid in the early 80's back in Trinidad, I had a few highschool friends were into ninja weapons, etc. They used to travel to Miami regularly and would bring back shurikens, nunchucks, ninja swords, and all kinds of crazy stuff in their checked luggage with no problems whatsoever. I don't know if this was legal back then or not they never had issues bringing them in.
Why would they have problems? You can take basically anything in your checked luggage...If you meant carry-on, that's a different story.
I always assumed that 14-16 yr old teens would raise some suspicion carrying a bunch of weapons back into the country. Back then and even to some extent now as far as I know, Trinidad customs used to (randomly) inspect incoming baggage, even checked luggage. At the least I found it somewhat risky. They also had/have pretty strict weapon laws.
Wow, nice job TSA. How they miss a chunk of steel like that is something.
That's probably the key word, "chunk of steel." A leatherman wave doesn't have a very knife'ish profile, could have been mistaken for any number of other common roughly rectangular objects on an X-ray
Hell, a few times a flew with my G19 in a shoulder holster, because I forgot to put it in checked baggage.
But if they can't identify a big chunk of steel like that, I'd like to think they'd at least pull the bag for a manual check. I'd hate to think of some terrorist having a few leatherman's in his bag and make it on my flight. We've already seen what a few simple box cutters are capable of...