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Wife got stopped by Homeland

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Going thru checkpoint on her flight this morning. Said she had gun powder residue on her bag. Oops... I think I used it while going out shooting the other day. Their machines must work.
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  • mrmike08075
    I was on a flight out of mcallen Texas were take off was initially delayed and we sat detached from the gate for awhile - federal marshals and TSA and airport police came aboard via the mobile stairway car thingy and took off an angry guy who kept showing a badge and self identifying...

    He was out of state SWAT demo and had dumped out one of his team gear bags and used it as a piece of checked luggage...

    The det cord and plastic and other explosive residues and trace element remnants set off some baggage compartment scanner like a Christmas tree...

    Idiot.

    I have a letter from the TSA in my file that covers my setting the explosive scanners off from shooting and reloading activities - that the residue gets into the skin and cannot be washed off - also on my clothing...

    After that they never put me through a scanner or additional levels of screening.

    Mike
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  • SCOUT5
    I'm guessing you're not real popular at home right now.
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  • select-fire
    You guessed wrong. She could have picked up the residue in the truck. Either way they just scanned her, no clothes off check or to the room.
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  • 11b6r
    Mr. Mike- you would appreciate what I used to go through- I TAUGHT blasting!

    *Sir, your computer bag tests positive for TNT and RDX*

    *Better run it again. You should be getting HMX as well*
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  • montanajoe
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    Congrats,you just made a 'watch list',, :o:o
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  • bpost
    11b6r wrote:
    Mr. Mike- you would appreciate what I used to go through- I TAUGHT blasting!

    *Sir, your computer bag tests positive for TNT and RDX*

    *Better run it again. You should be getting HMX as well*

    Did TSA seem to get a bit touchy about the presence of high level explosives?
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  • select-fire
    montanajoe wrote:
    Congrats,you just made a 'watch list',, :o:o

    Wife not me. She hasn't flown since HS when she went to France. I had to talk her into it. She was laughing when she called and told me. They didn't give her a hard time at all just questions and scanned. I told her she was a Dr. Terrorist Teacher.
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  • jimdeere
    She should wear a burhka. They?d wave her on through.
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  • nmyers
    Gun powder burns, it is not an explosive. (It burns real fast.)

    You may want to launder your clothing if you have been putting fertilizer in the garden.

    Neal
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  • select-fire
    They told her gun powder residue.
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  • Oakie
    My wife borrowed my hunting bag to go on a trip out west. She made it through Philly and Denver , no Problem. On the way back, she got pulled out of line and stripped searched. Seems there was a few rounds of 270 and 41 mag in her bag :o She was not happy. Missed her flight home. The guys that were doing the investigation, were very friendly and got a laugh out of it. The confiscated the ammo and sent her on the next plane home, to chew my ass out. :lol:
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  • 11b6r
    Mike- not only touchy, but feely :o

    Took them a while to find someone that knew what a Blaster's License was.
    Bless their little hearts.....
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