Wire Stripper in Check in Baggage

[Tomorokoshi]

From a salesman at a place I used to work at. He did a lot of travel. His advice was to put your business card conspicuously in various places in your suitcase. One on each side when opened, in various bags or boxes in the suitcase, etc. Psychologically, when the inspector opens it up and sees a card with your name staring back at him, there is an effect of feeling watched. Not sure how well it actually works, but at least in my limited travel I haven't lost anything.

[nes999]

I've flown with firearms several times and the procedure is simple:
Guns and ammunition must be in separate hard lockable cases.
You must declare you are travelling with firearms/ammunition to the airline in advance. Note: not all airlines allow firearms. BA and Virgin Atlantic are very good with regard to firearms. Virgin earn bonus points for allowing one item of sporting goods at no extra cost so long as you are within your weight allowance.
When you get to the check-in desk declare the firearms. Duh! [emoji14]
- Extra step in the UK is that the police will be called to check the serial numbers against your firearms certificate. Check-in early as this can take a while if the police are on their coffee break [emoji14]
A representative of the airline will take the cases - this person will carry them to the aircraft where they go into a separate locker within the aircraft that the captain has the key for - the cases don't go near the normal luggage handlers.
At your destination you find the airline desk and a representative of the airline will bring the cases from the aircraft to you.
You then apply for a temporary firearms license at your destination via the Red Channel - never had a problem. South Africa once gave me a 5 year temp license as I said I'd be returning the year after next [emoji14]

You can also pay a premium to use this separate locker for jewels, ashes, etc.

Though once the separate locker was full so the cases were put in the normal hold and thus appeared on the luggage carousel

I used to fly to gun shows. I was bringing some high value muskets.I declared them, and the lady said hold on I will go get sue, sue knows about guns. I was instructed several times to remove the magazine immediately! I had to explain several times that black powdered rifles don't have magazines. It was the biggest hassle.

 It has been awhile since I've flow with a firearm. However my firearms always came back with the normal luggage.

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[Cyberdragon]

I'm just imagining some movie style scene where they open a bag to inspect something odd, and when they do a spring snake jumps out at them and they all freak out and try to shoot it with tazers. Oh the humiliation...

[janoc]

I'm just imagining some movie style scene where they open a bag to inspect something odd, and when they do a spring snake jumps out at them and they all freak out and try to shoot it with tazers. Oh the humiliation...

Eh, if only tasers ... Today if the security freaks out over your bag you are more likely to get your luggage blown up by a bomb disposal robot at the slightest suspicion that something could be out of order there than someone actually trying to open it.

When it comes to security, common sense and proportionality are long gone and replaced by an all out military-style response as the default. That's why you get e.g. airport terminal evacuations and huge delays whenever someone leaves a bag unattended (typically because they are in a toilet where it is often physically impossible to bring the bags in!), despite pretty much no bomb having ever been found like this (all recent airport bombers were suicide ones, i.e. someone brought it in and detonated it in person).