Advice: Smuggling firearms

[Darkness]

Learn unarmed combat techniques instead!

 

[Paladin]

You know....this is exactly the kind of pseudo-subversive crap that could just get a bunch of guys in black suits knocking on your door.

Have fun.

The Men in Black? I'm not an alien, why should I care?

 

[Paladin]

Ask the Registered Conspiracy Theorist ...

Well, here's what I d...I mean, here's what I could do if I were to smuggle a gun through the airport...

I would disassemble it, then, place the pieces in a compartement with lots of other metal bits (like coins), to mask the X-Rays and Metal Detectors.

Alternatively, you could place the pieces in a hollow metal cane...

have fun

No, you can't put anything in a hollowed-out cane, they X-ray them for just that purpose.

 

[Sodalis]

paladin:
The Men in Black? I'm not an alien, why should I care?

well- I am pretty sure a good number of peopleposting on thee boards are aliens.... i am vietnamese...

i am sure hong is chinese or korean- ...and then there is Mahiro Satsu- I can only guess where he is from...

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Ask the Registered Conspiracy Theorist ...

Well, here's what I d...I mean, here's what I could do if I were to smuggle a gun through the airport...

I would disassemble it, then, place the pieces in a compartement with lots of other metal bits (like coins), to mask the X-Rays and Metal Detectors.

Alternatively, you could place the pieces in a hollow metal cane...

have fun

Placing the bits with other metal bits would not work against the airport X-ray that I've encountered. Every time we've packed anything odd-shaped (including the result of a collection of objects) we've had to open the suitcase and show them what it was. (Note: This was not in the US.)

Single objects have gone through fine, groupings (including a bag of foil-wrapped candy) have always been checked.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

No, you can't put anything in a hollowed-out cane, they X-ray them for just that purpose.

If the cane walls are metal, though, the x-ray won't see anything. My mother-in-law owns a cane that's hollow metal. A common item in any medical-supply store.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Make that 3 people.

Four...I loved those space Pirate guys (except for Winona Ryder). Sigourney Weaver's depiction of a 1/2 alien was intense.

 

[Tetsubo]

Flintknapping. That will produce a blade that will go right through a metal detector.

You can make a pistol out of a block of Teflon. Blackpowder with a percussion cap.

Wire concealed in a belt with metal decorations.
Instant garrote. Or hide a polymer strand inside a shoelace.

Bribe a flight attendant or ground crew member to hide a weapon onboard.

Heck, bribe an airport security member to overlook a weapon.

 

[Steve Conan Trustrum]

I could always go ask my old neighbor, though I'd have to visit him in jail. Turns out he was running guns up from the states for years before the US and Canadian feds raided his house a few years back ...