Timeline for Can I pass through the airport security with a de-activated Bazooka?
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| Jul 15, 2015 at 3:54 | comment | added | jwenting | @user568458 A chainsaw, even one that's not running, can do quite serious damage when swung at someone or something. They don't allow you to take baseball bats into the cabin for the same reason, and larger photography and video tripods. | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 1:55 | comment | added | David Richerby | @user568458 If you really have a son and you really want him to see a bazooka, take him to the Imperial War Museum. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 16:40 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | There was a funny case in 2012 where a passenger in the US tried to bring a petrol-powered chainsaw on board as carry-on. They had to chuck away the petrol (because it's explosive) and they weren't allowed the chainsaw in carry-on (it's useless as a weapon without fuel, but it's still a freaking chainsaw... might be alarming...) but they were allowed to check the chainsaw in to the hold. Here's the TSA's blog about it, other news outlets report that they had to check it in but I can't find a quality link. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 14:48 | comment | added | CGCampbell | Seems to me that a bazooka IS a firearm. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 13:50 | comment | added | Jonas | @User: you and I can. That doesn't mean people who have never held one can, as well. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 13:47 | comment | added | Ulkoma | @Jonas I grew up around them (and thats why I am buying one because I want my son to see a real one) and you can easily tell if it's loaded or not | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 13:44 | comment | added | Jonas | @User: Yeah, you would kick open the bathroom door and scream "Kaboom suckers!" (or something more sensible). On a more serious note, a Bazooka is scary - if people are afraid of a small bullet, they sure are not going to take a portable rocket launcher lightly. Anecdotally, I've seen the face of some idiot officer who stood behind a bazooka when giving the command to fire; since then I know that it's scary on both sides. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 13:31 | comment | added | Ulkoma | @Jonas ok, then what? why would I go out of the bathroom to scare them? surrender or I shoot? you kidding right? replica firearms are banned for a reason but defiantly not a bazooka | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 13:23 | comment | added | Jonas | @User: That's why you assemble a Bazooka in the bathroom. Duh. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 12:45 | comment | added | Ulkoma | @SpehroPefhany if it was even a replica of a gun I would not have bothered asking the question but I can't scare people with a Bazooka! They would beat me to death when I open the case and it's take few minutes to assemble it | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 12:40 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | @User Possibly because you could scare the living c**p out of other passengers and crew if you brandished it. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 12:36 | comment | added | Ulkoma | Thanks for your answer, however it looks like the security guys can stop me from getting through even if BA allowed it. I would appreciate more details about that and why I am not allowed to have it as a handbag, the case is not much different than a suitcase | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 12:21 | history | answered | jwenting | CC BY-SA 3.0 |