On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:31:28 -0500, Emily
wrote:
Too bad a lot of my commercial flights are into ORD. I thought you'd
found a way for the TSA to stop stealing my suff.

So they're into ORD, what's the big deal? You put a set of grips or
grip screws into your luggage, declare it as a firearm, and go
wherever you want... Even if it is some ****ed up location where they
have anti-2nd-Amendment laws, you're cool since the local laws are
very explicit about what is a firearm and a pair of grips or grip
screws are not classified by such by any locality by any stretch of
their imagination... Only the TSA is so ****ed up that they can't
decide what minimally constitutes a firearm...

The thing is, what *really* constitutes a firearm? A receiver is
often useless without a barrel... A barrel is no more than a fancy
piece of pipe... What about a bang stick? With it, you have little
more than a very short barrel and a fixed firing pin on a cap... For a
revolver, the frame doesn't do much good without the cylinder... And
if all you had was a cylinder, you would be hard pressed to utilize it
as a firearm... Well, you probably *could*, but a short piece of pipe
would probably work better...

When I'm carrying in my luggage, I put my firearm in a locked plastic
case and then I also lock the luggage that the plastic case is put
into...