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UPS has officially stopped shipping guns?
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<blockquote data-quote="BigDon" data-source="post: 2764417" data-attributes="member: 107254"><p>This 'law' thing often gets taken to extremes. In the '80's I was flying from San Francisco to San Diego to pickup some collector grade Colt Sauer rifles for my wife. I checked a multi-gun safari-style case as luggage - since I was going to pick up the rifles. Just before my flight boards, I get paged to the security office. As I leave the waiting area I pick up 2 followers. As I approach the security office, they walk past me, turn around and stop me at the office door, demand to see my ID and boarding pass. I comply, they invite me in. They quiz me if I have a gun and if I checked a gun. HMFIC asks me if I checked a gun in my luggage. I answer, properly - no. Out come the cuffs and the MP5s. Oooops! HMFIC tells me I'm lying and they have my gun in the next office, but they can't get my case open. They escort me to another office - cuffed - and covered by 3 full auto weapons. (I'm in a Brook's Brothers suit.). They open the office door and here are 3 more agents with full auto weapons at the ready. I walk over to the gun case - they draw directly at me and tell me to stop! I respond 'I thought you wanted me to open the case? We do, they say, but no fast moves. I ask them to uncuff at least one hand. They do. Open the case slowly they say. I take the 3 combo locks off and start to open the case. FREEZE! I do. Another agent comes over and opens the lid - expecting the big reveal of my guns. No guns! Big Problem. HMFIC starts lecturing me about false statements. I demand that they remove the cuffs and get me to my flight. Head man tells if I ever check another 'gun' case to declare it as a gun. I made matters worse by pointing out his admonition that false statements to TSA is a Felony! No one was amused. They did get me on the flight - and with the gun case. Most amazing thing of all - there was a big red and white sticker now on the case that said: Passed X-Ray! What a hoot. After I opened the lid they took all the padding out and checked it for teeny weenie guns. </p><p></p><p>I could go on. Maybe in a dedicated post. I have way to many stories like this from over the years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigDon, post: 2764417, member: 107254"] This ‘law’ thing often gets taken to extremes. In the ‘80’s I was flying from San Francisco to San Diego to pickup some collector grade Colt Sauer rifles for my wife. I checked a multi-gun safari-style case as luggage - since I was going to pick up the rifles. Just before my flight boards, I get paged to the security office. As I leave the waiting area I pick up 2 followers. As I approach the security office, they walk past me, turn around and stop me at the office door, demand to see my ID and boarding pass. I comply, they invite me in. They quiz me if I have a gun and if I checked a gun. HMFIC asks me if I checked a gun in my luggage. I answer, properly - no. Out come the cuffs and the MP5s. Oooops! HMFIC tells me I’m lying and they have my gun in the next office, but they can’t get my case open. They escort me to another office - cuffed - and covered by 3 full auto weapons. (I’m in a Brook’s Brothers suit.). They open the office door and here are 3 more agents with full auto weapons at the ready. I walk over to the gun case - they draw directly at me and tell me to stop! I respond ‘I thought you wanted me to open the case? We do, they say, but no fast moves. I ask them to uncuff at least one hand. They do. Open the case slowly they say. I take the 3 combo locks off and start to open the case. FREEZE! I do. Another agent comes over and opens the lid - expecting the big reveal of my guns. No guns! Big Problem. HMFIC starts lecturing me about false statements. I demand that they remove the cuffs and get me to my flight. Head man tells if I ever check another ‘gun’ case to declare it as a gun. I made matters worse by pointing out his admonition that false statements to TSA is a Felony! No one was amused. They did get me on the flight - and with the gun case. Most amazing thing of all - there was a big red and white sticker now on the case that said: Passed X-Ray! What a hoot. After I opened the lid they took all the padding out and checked it for teeny weenie guns. I could go on. Maybe in a dedicated post. I have way to many stories like this from over the years. [/QUOTE]
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