Rob Pincus
New member
I walked up to the counter at Dulles Airport this morning and told the lady I needed to fill out the form for a firearm.
"The form" I was reffering to is a little tag that is supposed to be put inside the box that the gunis located in. It has a place for the passenger's name and signature, the agents's name and signature and the date. It is bright oragne and says something to the extant of "UNLOADED FIREARM YADDA YADDA YADDA."
What she handed me was a 8.5x11 sheet of paper with several blank spaces and a lot of very fine print. It was a triplicate form, I immediately noticed a box to check if I was escorting a prisoner!!
Apparently she had given me the form that a federal agent would fill out when going armed on a plane. I asked her if she was sure I should be filing out that form to check in a gun and she replied:
"oh, you don't want to take it on board?"
I said:
"Sure, but as far I as I knew, that was a privilege reserved for Federal Agents."
She got a goofy look on her face and "oh, you're not a police officer?"...
At that point I just handed her back the form and told her I wanted to check the gun...
After she had taken care of our tickets and such I told her that I was a local LEO, but I didn't think that I would've been able to carry on board, she instructed me that If I had filled out the forms, She'd've jujst signed off on them and they wouod've been my pass through security and onto the plane...
I wish I had taken a better look at the form, I'm sure that some of the fine print said "If you are not supposed to be using this form, doing so will send you to jail for a long time when the FAA get's it's copy!!!!!" or some such....
Perhaps someone who HAS used that particular form can fill us in....
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-Essayons
"The form" I was reffering to is a little tag that is supposed to be put inside the box that the gunis located in. It has a place for the passenger's name and signature, the agents's name and signature and the date. It is bright oragne and says something to the extant of "UNLOADED FIREARM YADDA YADDA YADDA."
What she handed me was a 8.5x11 sheet of paper with several blank spaces and a lot of very fine print. It was a triplicate form, I immediately noticed a box to check if I was escorting a prisoner!!
Apparently she had given me the form that a federal agent would fill out when going armed on a plane. I asked her if she was sure I should be filing out that form to check in a gun and she replied:
"oh, you don't want to take it on board?"
I said:
"Sure, but as far I as I knew, that was a privilege reserved for Federal Agents."
She got a goofy look on her face and "oh, you're not a police officer?"...
At that point I just handed her back the form and told her I wanted to check the gun...
After she had taken care of our tickets and such I told her that I was a local LEO, but I didn't think that I would've been able to carry on board, she instructed me that If I had filled out the forms, She'd've jujst signed off on them and they wouod've been my pass through security and onto the plane...
I wish I had taken a better look at the form, I'm sure that some of the fine print said "If you are not supposed to be using this form, doing so will send you to jail for a long time when the FAA get's it's copy!!!!!" or some such....
Perhaps someone who HAS used that particular form can fill us in....
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-Essayons