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I think he should have demanded a supervisor get involved, and if necessary, that person’s supervisor. Also, all information about the TSA idiot who started this crap should be taken down and all should be advised that a complaint about each of them will be made. It may not help, but if enough people stand up for themselves, this crap wouldn’t happen as often.

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Originally posted by K Evans:
Thi past weekend I flew out of Denver back to DFW,Denver International is always busy and security is usually slow, yesterday was no exception. What was an exception was a never before seen sign (by me, anyway)at the entrance to the metal detector saying "No firearm parts allowed in carry on luggage". A poor guy, dressed for safari, about 6 ahead of me had an extra scope in his backpack and was rejected...a scope with rings is classified as a firearm part, at least in Denver, yesterday by that particular TSA guy. Couldn't carry the scope in his carry on, since he had obviously already checked his bags I don't know how he would put the scope in his checked bags. He wasn't very happy.

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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/sec...fle-scope-scope-only
Here is the link from the TSA Website stating that scopes can be carried in your carry-on. More dumbass TSA fools that don't know the law! Someone needs to school these idiots!

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"The final decision rests with the TSA officer on whether an item is allowed through the checkpoint"

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:
TSA, like CBP, pays their employees poorly, their working conditions are below average, their supervisors are often incompetent and overbearing, and they are largely recruited from the ranks of the otherwise unemployable. And, there are never enough of them on duty to handle the volume in a timely manner. Despite this, there are a number of excellent people working for TSA who have to work alongside the less-than-excellent, but who are tarred by the reputations of their co-workers.

The traveling public should demand that both TSA and CPB upgrade their workforce by paying competitive salaries, increasing the number of employees to match the volume of traffic they must deal with, and investing in effective training programs so that they have a better handle on what they're supposed to be doing and understand the concept of customer service. We're already paying for this through the various taxes and fees associated with air travel; we're just not getting what we pay for and much of the money is being siphoned off into other uses.

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Originally posted by BaxterB:

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:
TSA, like CBP, pays their employees poorly, their working conditions are below average, their supervisors are often incompetent and overbearing, and they are largely recruited from the ranks of the otherwise unemployable. And, there are never enough of them on duty to handle the volume in a timely manner. Despite this, there are a number of excellent people working for TSA who have to work alongside the less-than-excellent, but who are tarred by the reputations of their co-workers.

The traveling public should demand that both TSA and CPB upgrade their workforce by paying competitive salaries, increasing the number of employees to match the volume of traffic they must deal with, and investing in effective training programs so that they have a better handle on what they're supposed to be doing and understand the concept of customer service. We're already paying for this through the various taxes and fees associated with air travel; we're just not getting what we pay for and much of the money is being siphoned off into other uses.

Too many people at TSA simply see the job as easy money. Giving them more of it won’t change them, and the system has no way separating the wheat from the chaff.

I went through Dulles once with a bag that had plenty of gunpowder residue on it from shooting clays. The TSA agent got two, count them, two positives for explosives and while yapping to her coworker, told me “This thing always acting up.” And waved me through. Think about that shit.

Then again, when I took my rifle out to D’Arcy Echols’ place in February, they were very easy to deal with.


The inconsistency is the maddening part. It’s like dealing with a schizophrenic.

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:

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Originally posted by BaxterB:

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:
TSA, like CBP, pays their employees poorly, their working conditions are below average, their supervisors are often incompetent and overbearing, and they are largely recruited from the ranks of the otherwise unemployable. And, there are never enough of them on duty to handle the volume in a timely manner. Despite this, there are a number of excellent people working for TSA who have to work alongside the less-than-excellent, but who are tarred by the reputations of their co-workers.

The traveling public should demand that both TSA and CPB upgrade their workforce by paying competitive salaries, increasing the number of employees to match the volume of traffic they must deal with, and investing in effective training programs so that they have a better handle on what they're supposed to be doing and understand the concept of customer service. We're already paying for this through the various taxes and fees associated with air travel; we're just not getting what we pay for and much of the money is being siphoned off into other uses.

Too many people at TSA simply see the job as easy money. Giving them more of it won’t change them, and the system has no way separating the wheat from the chaff.

I went through Dulles once with a bag that had plenty of gunpowder residue on it from shooting clays. The TSA agent got two, count them, two positives for explosives and while yapping to her coworker, told me “This thing always acting up.” And waved me through. Think about that shit.

Then again, when I took my rifle out to D’Arcy Echols’ place in February, they were very easy to deal with.


The inconsistency is the maddening part. It’s like dealing with a schizophrenic.

Completely agree with you Baxter.

It's all eye wash for the masses anyway.

Take for example knives and other cutting instruments. We all know the 9-11 hijackings were performed with box cutters. So no more box cutters, scissors, small knives in the cabin right?

Think about this one. A trip to the lavatory with a common credit card and an emory board and you can fashion a razor sharp cutting tool in just a few mins. One of the examples we used to get the Federal Flight Deck Officer program instituted whereby the pilots may, or may not, be armed behind the cockpit door.

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Originally posted by The Norwegian:
I have put scopes in my carry on luggage on many trips. No questions asked except Frankfurt. On three occasions I have been held back by security ( ladies ) suspicous that this is something dangerous. Called the police and at one occasion they started laughing.. Zeiss ( German top quality ) was known to the police guys, but not for the security lady. I tried to explain to her... but I must have looked like a terrorist... Maybe it is the battery inside regulated the red dot that makes them suspicous…


Morten

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Originally posted by BaxterB:

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:
TSA, like CBP, pays their employees poorly, their working conditions are below average, their supervisors are often incompetent and overbearing, and they are largely recruited from the ranks of the otherwise unemployable. And, there are never enough of them on duty to handle the volume in a timely manner. Despite this, there are a number of excellent people working for TSA who have to work alongside the less-than-excellent, but who are tarred by the reputations of their co-workers.

The traveling public should demand that both TSA and CPB upgrade their workforce by paying competitive salaries, increasing the number of employees to match the volume of traffic they must deal with, and investing in effective training programs so that they have a better handle on what they're supposed to be doing and understand the concept of customer service. We're already paying for this through the various taxes and fees associated with air travel; we're just not getting what we pay for and much of the money is being siphoned off into other uses.

Too many people at TSA simply see the job as easy money. Giving them more of it won’t change them, and the system has no way separating the wheat from the chaff.

I went through Dulles once with a bag that had plenty of gunpowder residue on it from shooting clays. The TSA agent got two, count them, two positives for explosives and while yapping to her coworker, told me “This thing always acting up.” And waved me through. Think about that shit.

Then again, when I took my rifle out to D’Arcy Echols’ place in February, they were very easy to deal with.


The inconsistency is the maddening part. It’s like dealing with a schizophrenic.

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Originally posted by Slider:
Did the Guy ask The TSA Agent where you put in The Cartriges?