So, I've bought a number of TSA seized knives, but...

[johnwilliamson062]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...eek-breaking-tsa-gun-record-article-1.2762960

What do hey do with all the guns? I bet most of these are in great condition. Are they melting them down, warehousing them, or auctioning? 2500 a year isn't a ton, but it also isn't insignificant.

 

[rightside]

In Obama's regime? pretty easy to speculate where they go.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

In Obama's regime? pretty easy to speculate where they go.

Yeah, the same place they went under Bush II. The guns are kept as evidence until prosecution and then usually destroyed.

 

[Rancid]

They go home with the TSA guys.

 

[bamaranger]

knives

If you've bought a small Victronox with red scales, the tiny knife blade, scissors, tweezer and toothpick, and a short length of green para cord on a split ring....it's my wife's. Gave it to her as a gift. Seized by TSA in 2001.

We were flying to my home after my Dad's death....it was in her purse, as always, she never even gave it a second thought. I was federally LE credentialed and legally flying armed....in the seat beside her. No reasoning with the TSA employee would convince him to allow me to take possession of it while aloft.
We ate the loss and I bought her another.....yellow scales.

Still annoys me.

 

[kilimanjaro]

Pre-TSA, the security screeners had some discretion. I once forgot about the folding Buck knife I routinely carried in my trousers pocket, and of course it got some attention. The screener looked at the knife, then he looked at me, then again the knife, then again at me, before handing it back to me and telling me to enjoy my flight.

 

[Evan Thomas]

Last call! Does anyone have anything gun-related to add to this?

 

[Brian Pfleuger]

Knives are not a criminal matter (generally, but there are exceptions) and are simply confiscated by TSA. Firearms are considered criminal and are therefore handled by the pertinent LE agency just like any other criminal complaint.

 

[johnwilliamson062]

So the FBI probably has them in storage? Love their vault in DC. WIsh I could go through the whole thing sometime instead of just getting a glimpse.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

No, the FBI or whomever has them in storage until prosecution and then they are usually destroyed, as I posted above.

 

[Slamfire]

Have a bud who works at Anniston Army Depot. The shredder there was being used on firearms confiscated from National Parks. Don't know if that is where all seized firearms go.

TSA does not address where the firearms go in this blog post:

What happens to your prohibited items?

http://blog.tsa.gov/2009/09/what-happens-to-your-prohibited-items.html

Eighty one Firearms found in carry on bags in one week:

http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/08/tsa-week-in-review-august-12th-18th.html

 

[Skans]

They go home with the TSA guys.

I think there is more truth in this than anyone wants to believe. Not immediately, but once the case is closed.

 

[kraigwy]

I was on the Anchorage Police Dept. Bomb Squad.

The Airport Security would give us the knives and other assorted contraband go get rid of.

The Oil Companies donated a storage bunker to the department on the condition we disposed of their excess explosives. This made for good training but the explosives were also used to destroy the stuff we got from the Airport.

It was pretty effective.

Too keep this gun related we also got rid of firearms the same way. I had a machine shop/Gun repair shop of the side and the dept. gave me the guns to cut up. I didn't have the heart to do it take a troch to any guns so they went with the Airport Security knives.

That was over 22 years ago, I don't know what they do now, probably have the same policy as it does provide training for the bomb squad guys.