If you enjoy the forum please consider supporting it by signing up for a NES Membership The benefits pay for the membership many times over.
Be sure to enter the NES/MFS May Giveaway ***Canik METE SFX***
Any chance this was at New Mexico Tech?I went to a demo day (explosives show and tell kind of thing) and they just wanted everyone to leave plenty of time if they were flying that day in case TSA accidentally uses their Ionscan competently.
No handler is going to try to get their dog decertified like that. Handlers get very upset when their K9 alerts and they don’t find anything - it’s very bad news for them.Did the dog truly detect something or did the handler signal the dog as a pretext for a search? I suspect it's more often than not the latter.
Nope, was hosted at a CA National Guard base. No idea how or why we got an invitation, but when my boss got it, I was halfway to my car before he finished his sentence! “Hey, you want to go watch the FBI blow all kinds of shit up down at...” and I was already on my way out the door!Any chance this was at New Mexico Tech?
All I know is the dog barked softly when I stopped at the gate and he told me to pull over. He told me the dog alerted to explosives and then he searched my car. The dog then alerted when he was in the trunk of the SUV and again in the back seat.Did the dog truly detect something or did the handler signal the dog as a pretext for a search? I suspect it's more often than not the latter.
Although things may have changed, back in 2000 on our way to Israel we had a 4 hour layover in the middle of the night in Zurich. They wheeled in a huge machine and started to setup. I asked one of the officers (police running this show) if gunpowder would show up and the answer was no. One of my bags had been used as a range bag. They swabbed everyone's bag and lots of items in the bags, nothing alerted.I got swabbed the other day, the TSA guy said the swab was for explosives, not gunpowder residue.
Although things may have changed, back in 2000 on our way to Israel we had a 4 hour layover in the middle of the night in Zurich. They wheeled in a huge machine and started to setup. I asked one of the officers (police running this show) if gunpowder would show up and the answer was no. One of my bags had been used as a range bag. They swabbed everyone's bag and lots of items in the bags, nothing alerted.
I go out of my way to wear range-travelled shoes to the airport. Zero attention to them, but there's usually a fals positive from the scanner when I keep folded paper in my shirt pocket, but somehow the fat sweaty TSA agent with the blue gloves wants to feel the junk area. My son laughs about it every time it happens to me
Lol, really?Ever packed a box of business cards in a carry on? They literally treat them like a block of C4 every time I go to a tradeshow. If your equipment can't identify the difference between paper and explosives, it's probably not very effective.
We care about the environment at NES, so we only shower every 3 days.If you shower/bathe daily, why would this be an issue?
Lol, really?
I bring like 200 business cards in my carry on when I travel, never had issue. I also never had an issue with my 556 casing keychain.
If you shower/bathe daily, why would this be an issue?
Maybe he's travelling to a gun show?
In the pointy end or out back?This is why I only fly on private jets...
Smokeless gun powder does not register on the explosive detector swaps. Black power might, but I don't know for sure.
Similar situation but different......Last time I flew I wore the same pair of jeans I wore to the range the day before, I checked my cuffs for brass right before I left, and found two.
I've definitely also had a loose round or two in a carry on. I found them weeks after the trip.