Beware flying into NY with firearms

[olstyn]

As recently as five or six years ago, the rumor mill had it easier to get a non-resident MA permit than it was for an actual inmate of the Bay State to get one.

I suppose that's because non-residents don't spend as much time there, so the folks who do the approval process see them as less of a threat?

[Peally]

I have nothing to add here other than fuck New York.

[GJM]

Clarifying....

You drove in a car from CT to JFK, tried to check guns, any guns, and did not get arrested? In 2000?

Unicorn!

You are what my dyslexic friend would call, a fucky lucker.

I did it, year after year, going to Africa. So did a number of my friends. It was a different time....

[jon volk]

Yeah the one and only time I flew with guns was from PDX -> ATL -> BDL (Hartford CT - before the newest AWB). Was $200 more expensive than flying thru JFK but I paid the extra money without a minute's hesitation.

I always fly out of BDL. Never so much as a hiccup when checking a firearm. Strange, considering the present state of this shit hole state.

[JohnO]

As we checked in the firearms, they called the BA "security specialist." He said you can't have a Glock in your checked luggage. I was like why not, it is legal in Zimbabwe. He said it was a "weapon of war." Stalemate ensues -- we are in JFK airport in NYC, and it is clear we aren't getting on the plane with the Glock in our luggage. So now the problem is what to do with the Glock.

British Airways gave my daughter and her friend a real hard time at JFK 3 years ago. Both were traveling to Oxford University, flying out on Icelandic Air and BA was running the gate. The girls received instructions from Oxford to purchase a One Way ticket. When their studies were over they could travel Europe and use their housing as home base for almost a month then fly home.

My daughter and her friend were denied boarding by the BA gate agents and locked in a room. The problem was their One Way tickets. The BA gate agents said that without proof that they were leaving the UK they would be denied entry in Heathrow, turned around and immediately sent back. They each purchased train ticket to Paris to satisfy the gate agents. Online ticket purchase confirmation in hand they were freed from their confinement and allowed to board.

I got "bloody" pissed over the whole incident. I called the State Dept., TSA, British Embassy and British Airways. In the end I forced British Airways to pay for the train tickets because the girls should never have been treated like they were. They had all the appropriate Visa papers and documentation that they were Oxford exchange students following the University's instructions.