I have had airlines leave my Firearms in monitored in the open or on the carousel with the special tags.


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We arrived early in Kona and they didn't have room for us to fly back early.  Our luggage including the rifle cases did get on earlier flight.  When we arrived in Honolulu our rifle cases and some golf club hard cases were stacked on the side of the carousel unattended.  Our luggage was on the carousel and it had stopped moving.  There were 2 flights before ours but we never found out which flight the luggage came back on.  It definitely wasn't ours because no one on our flight had claimed their luggage yet and the carousel was stopped.

Prince Law in PA is aware and may file a lawsuit if it continues.

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As long as they dont mark it saying firearm and use a tag that would be on any special handling luggage they wouldn't be doing anything illegal.

As long as they dont mark it saying firearm and use a tag that would be on any special handling luggage they wouldn't be doing anything illegal.

This is what was reported:

The airline will now have special tags to alert ground handlers to not put bags carrying weapons on the general carousel.

The baggage will go directly to a baggage service agent who is required to perform an ID check on the passenger who picks up the luggage, sources told NBC 6. The agent must then use zip ties to secure the bag.

Not much detail, but if a tag can be used to alert handlers it is carrying a weapon, that's bad.  If it merely says "take me to the baggage service agent", that's fine.

The reality is that this kook with a gun was crazy and looking to do something crazy with his gun. This is highly unlikely to ever happen again. Every once in awhile, they have people check luggage as it's leaving the baggage carousels and then they disappear for awhile. They're mostly there to make sure that people don't walk off with someone else's luggage. The airlines have to weigh the cost of the attendants vs. the cost of replacing bags that were stolen, plus the delay and confrontation it might cause. Unless the FAA starts to mandate it, this will probably go away in a year or so until people forget that it happened. If they really want to make the baggage area secure, they need to place xray machines at all entrances to the building with armed guards (like most international airports do) so no one can bring a gun in and start shooting ala MW2 style.

I've flown with firearms to Nevada and Washington on many occasions and had my luggage both arrive through the carousel and through the baggage desk. Most times when it did come through the desk it was because it was an oversized item(rifle case) and probably not because it was a firearm. it always worried me when it came through the carousel so I am for the extra security to pick up my firearm but I am not open to marking my luggage. Marking your luggage makes it a target not from the public but from the baggage handlers, especially when traveling with handguns.

http://www.guns.com/2017/03/03/airport-baggage-handler-busted-for-stealing-guns-from-luggage/

I've flown with firearms to Nevada and Washington on many occasions and had my luggage both arrive through the carousel and through the baggage desk. Most times when it did come through the desk it was because it was an oversized item(rifle case) and probably not because it was a firearm. it always worried me when it came through the carousel so I am for the extra security to pick up my firearm but I am not open to marking my luggage. Marking your luggage makes it a target not from the public but from the baggage handlers, especially when traveling with handguns.

http://www.guns.com/2017/03/03/airport-baggage-handler-busted-for-stealing-guns-from-luggage/

Were those instances at the same airport through the same airline?  Or different? 

Were those instances at the same airport through the same airline?  Or different?

To Nevada(LAS) it was either on Hawaiian or Delta and to Washington(SEA) only Hawaiian. Most of the trips were to LAS and baggage pickup for either airline were inconsistent.

I imagine that Alaskan Airlines is comfortable with firearms since half the passengers to Alaska are taking hunting rifles with them. The other half are taking fishing rods. It's also common to see large coolers coming back filled with perishable meat and fish.