Posted on 03/05/2013 1:36:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
Small knives are set to be permitted in carry-on luggage on flights, in a change to current guidelines announced by the TSA today.
Knives with blades no more than 2.36 inches in length from tip to where the blade meets the handle or hilt will be approved for carry-on.
The blade must be no more than half an inch in width.
The TSA also announced toy bats and sporting equipment such as hockey sticks and golf clubs will also be allowed on board aircraft. …
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Just quit groping the old ladies, the handicapped & the babies!!!
Does my box cutter still qualify?
Sequester switchblades in the skies............
perhaps Napolitano and Holder promised the Muslim Brotherhood that they can now bring their sacred box cutters on planes again. Its only fair to the religion.
Box cutter blades are much shorter than that. Keep the knife ban and quit molesting little kids and old ladies!
The first person to pull out a knife on a flight will be prompty beaten to death by the passengers. People have an understandingly missing sense of humor on board commercial airliners anymore.
I doubt this will last long. One report said the TSA was going to use a “more European” standard, which is a greater reliance on profiling. The ACLU will put a stop to that quickly.
Good Lord.
They already ALLOW knifes on the jet. . .sit in first class and they bring you a steel knife and a steel fork.
For key-rist sakes. . .those bed-wetting lefty-nanny-state-huggers are worried about allowing grandfather’s pocket knife on board?
Sheesh.
All this whining and crying and hand wringing over a blade 2.36” long or less.
Translation: all TSA workers have a lifetime supply of pocket knives to keep, sell at flea markets, and give to kids and grandchildren.
Sounds dumb to me.
“no more than 2.36 inches in length”...”no more than half an inch in width”
Great, now I can board with my surgical scalpels and X-Acto knives, right? Mini-box cutters with enough segments broken off to get under the 2.36” limit?
(And exactly how are these less threatening than my Swiss Army knife or my Leatherman?)
Idiots!
“no more than 2.36 inches in length”...”no more than half an inch in width”
Great, now I can board with my surgical scalpels and X-Acto knives, right? Mini-box cutters with enough segments broken off to get under the 2.36” limit?
(And exactly how are these less threatening than my Swiss Army knife or my Leatherman?)
Idiots!
No thanks. I’m still not flying until I can carry my Spyderco Endura and not be molested by some sodomite TSA agent.
Shut down the TSA. Shut it all down.
I plan to smuggle 5 ounces of hand sanitizer onto my next flight, in case I need to use it to defend myself from a knife-wielding terrorist.
Travelled out of Dulles to Amsterdam on Saturday. In my checked in luggage was a Cold Steel carbon steel Ghurka Kukri (which by the way is the best Kukuri I own, and I have some Nepalese kukri that are not as good as the Cold Steel version), and two Ka-Bar TDI serrated edge knives (the only small blade that I consider better than anything from spyderco - the TDI is a sweet fixed blade that can be placed anywhere). Anyways, I have the three knives in my checked luggage. When I get to my destination I realized the padlock to my suitcase had been cut, and I opened it expecting to find all three knives missing. They were not!!!! It’s been a day now, and I am still surprised the tsa didn’t ‘confiscate’ the stuff.
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