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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by URSpider94 on Monday May 02, 2016 @09:30PM (#11617174)
Absolutely not true. You haven't been able to carry a firearm onto an airplane for, pretty much, forever.

You always could, and still can, check a firearm into luggage on a flight.

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by fapjacks on Monday May 02, 2016 @10:11PM (#11617327)
Absolutely true. In the 90s, I went to a regional shooting competition with a handful of other high school kids, and we brought firearms onto the plane.
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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by URSpider94 on Monday May 02, 2016 @10:36PM (#11617438)
I'm sorry, but you are just wrong. The relevant US code is at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46505 -- it's been in place since the 50's. Security screening to detect weapons has been in place since the early 1970's, after a rash of hijackings in the late 60's. You must be mis-remembering.
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