I have traveled by air on several occasions using a range bag (with no banned items in it or on me) and had it taken off and swabbed and analyzed and returned to me a couple of times. Other times it went right through with no further inspection. This is the Govt. folks. It doesn't have to make sense.
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Old range bag and airplane screening
- Thread starter Jackie
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Brian Pfleuger
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I get extra explosives screening every time I fly. A medical device I carry with me must have been the subject of some special alert, it has gone from no problem, to remove it like a computer for x-rays, to do an explosives swab every time. I must certainly remember never to touch the carry bag after shooting. God help me if it turns up positive sometime, i will be in screening forever.
Certain medical equipment, such as CPAP machines, make x-ray screening difficult. The extra screening fills that hole.
I have traveled by air on several occasions using a range bag (with no banned items in it or on me) and had it taken off and swabbed and analyzed and returned to me a couple of times. Other times it went right through with no further inspection. This is the Govt. folks. It doesn't have to make sense.
If a range bag is chosen for additional screening it is a random event. The screeners are regularly choosing random bags for screening.
I say again- Gun powder, gunpowder residue and firearms DO NOT set off the explosives machines, except by random contamination from another source just like 99.99% of other bags that cause an alarm.
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I have used my range bag as carry-on luggage. I put the usual contents of the bag - ammo, mags, shooting glasses, spare parts - in my checked bag, and put stuff like books, sunglasses, etc. in the range bag. When I get to my destination, I put the gun gear back in the range bag. While I have since stopped doing this (I now put the range bag, intact, within my checked bag), I never had a problem doing so. I have had my shoes "sniffed" for residue, and am surprised they haven't "caught" me, as my leisure shoes are generally the same cross-trainers that I wear when I shoot.