Hi there, i'm not sure if this should be here or maybe in Legalese.......
Anyway, i just finished a short trip to the Philippines, to attend my cousin's wedding.......
Anyway, while i was there, i hit up a selling market, and they had a tonne of little spring loaded, i think they are 'airsoft' (little plastic bb's?) guns, so i picked up a couple for my boys that had asked for airsofts for X-mas.
They were the coolest little things, modelled after a S&W990, with little red laser aimpoints(?) and they only cost a couple (3!!)bucks in CDN funds.....
At the X-ray in Manila on the way home, at security into the building, the X-rayer person asked me to open my bag, pulled them out, and told me that 'replica' guns were not allowed. I told him they were plastic, and are in my checked luggage, not carry on. He said, 'no replica guns in luggage'.
I didn't have time to argue, since my flight left in about an hour, it took over an hour to get into the damn terminal, so i said fine, and gave them up, and went on my way......(pulled off the red dot laser things thought, which might actually work on my little P22)
Any thoughts or opinions?
I know at the time, i just kept in my head, 'better safe than sorry' for the security of the airport and all, but afterward(at home), and checking everything i can on the internet, i'm a little pissed, these were in my CHECKED baggage, which i have no access to once i am checked in for the flight.......
Rob
Anyway, i just finished a short trip to the Philippines, to attend my cousin's wedding.......
Anyway, while i was there, i hit up a selling market, and they had a tonne of little spring loaded, i think they are 'airsoft' (little plastic bb's?) guns, so i picked up a couple for my boys that had asked for airsofts for X-mas.
They were the coolest little things, modelled after a S&W990, with little red laser aimpoints(?) and they only cost a couple (3!!)bucks in CDN funds.....
At the X-ray in Manila on the way home, at security into the building, the X-rayer person asked me to open my bag, pulled them out, and told me that 'replica' guns were not allowed. I told him they were plastic, and are in my checked luggage, not carry on. He said, 'no replica guns in luggage'.
I didn't have time to argue, since my flight left in about an hour, it took over an hour to get into the damn terminal, so i said fine, and gave them up, and went on my way......(pulled off the red dot laser things thought, which might actually work on my little P22)
Any thoughts or opinions?
I know at the time, i just kept in my head, 'better safe than sorry' for the security of the airport and all, but afterward(at home), and checking everything i can on the internet, i'm a little pissed, these were in my CHECKED baggage, which i have no access to once i am checked in for the flight.......
Rob
