If you want to keep your checked valuables from being stolen while you fly, just keep a gun in your suitcase.
Many airports won’t let you effectively lock your suitcases when you fly, and the new limits on carry-on luggage thanks to moisture-terror-hysteria mean it’s open season for unscrupulous TSA employees and baggage handlers who want to help themselves to expensive cameras and other valuable in checked bags.
But once you add a gun even a starter pistol to your luggage, it gets extra-locked, gains new tracking privileges, and is subject to heightened scrutiny all the way to your destination.
A "weapons" is defined as a rifle, shotgun, pistol, airgun, and STARTER PISTOL. Yes, starter pistols those little guns that fire blanks at track and swim meets are considered weapons…and do NOT have to be registered in any state in the United States.
January 15, 2010