[John Jorsett]

Innocent or not, I'd never turn myself in. I'd get off the plane and stuff the items in the nearest trash can. I'd never put my fate in the hands of the same agency that was incompetent enough to let me board with them in the first place.

[Gunrunner2]

Yeah, that might work, but consider this; when the trash collector opens the bin to empty it and finds the stun gun and knife, what then? He turns the stuff in, the alarm is raised, flights are suspended and possibly cancelled, everyone again goes through screening and the world is interrupted---but you.

I'd rather wait until I got off the plane, walked to "security," asked to speak with a supervisor about a sensitive subject, in private, and then tell them. This way you don't embarass TSA publically and provoke them into doing something to save face, you don't risk closing an airport, you don't risk setting off a flighty stewardess and you don't interrupt the rest of the world because the TSA are inept.

Just my thought.

[Mulder]

Innocent or not, I'd never turn myself in. I'd get off the plane and stuff the items in the nearest trash can. I'd never put my fate in the hands of the same agency that was incompetent enough to let me board with them in the first place.

I agree. Whether or not you get charged for this stuff is a crapshoot, so it makes sense to bring your chances down to "zero".