TSA to Allow Pocket Knives On Planes

[Scrawny Armed Alex Smith]

TSA to Allow Pocket Knives On Planes

As the nation braces for potentially extended airport security lines because of the federal budget sequester, the Travel Security Administration (TSA) has announced they will allow small pocket knives and certain sporting goods on planes for the first time in more than a decade.

Starting April 25, passengers flying on U.S. flights will be allowed to carry small pocket knives – blades less than 6-centimeters, up to two golf clubs, ski poles, as well as sporting sticks used for hockey, lacrosse, and billiards. Baseball bats will remain on the no-fly list, though wiffle-ball bats and souvenir baseball bats (less than 24-inches long) will be allowed.

“These are popular items we see regularly,” agency spokesman David Castelveter told Bloomberg News. “They don’t present a risk to transportation security.”

The move comes following a recommendation by a TSA working group that such items are not a security threat. The move will conform to international rules that currently allow the small knives and sporting goods.

“Frankly, I don’t want TSA agents to be delayed by these,” Pistole told the audience. Adding that TSA screeners at Los Angeles International Airport in the last three months of 2012, seized 47 of the small knives per day.

The Flight Attendants Union Coalition, which represents the 90,000 flight attendants on carriers nationwide, blasted the announcement calling it “poor and shortsighted.”

“Continued prohibition of these items is an integral layer in making our aviation system secure and must remain in place,” the statement said. “As the last line of defense in the cabin and key aviation partners, we believe that these proposed changes will further endanger the lives of all Flight Attendants and the passengers we work so hard to keep safe and secure.”

Razor blades and box-cutters, like those used by the 9/11 terrorists, will still be banned.

“There is just too much emotion involved with those,” Pistole said at the conference.

The Transportation Security Administration announced last week they would be reducing ”frontline workforce,” those who screen passengers prior to accessing a flight gate, and thereby lead to increased passenger wait times at airport security checkpoints.

The cuts come from a freeze of airport security screeners hiring and cutbacks on overtime, due to sequestration.

[Dunerdr]

'Merica?

[A Salt Weapon]

Originally Posted by pr_capone

“Continued prohibition of these items is an integral layer in making our aviation system secure and must remain in place,” the statement said. “As the last line of defense in the cabin and key aviation partners, we believe that these proposed changes will further endanger the lives of all Flight Attendants and the passengers we work so hard to keep safe and secure.”

Really? Prior to 9/11, were flight attendants and pilots being stabbed left and right? Were planes hijacked on a weekly basis? Plain stupidity and based solely on emotion vs facts.

Well of course the airport employees union would say that, they are trying to justify the existance of their employees worthless pieces of tax dollar wasting lazy worthless shit****s that do absolutely nothing but drain money under the disguise of safety. Free-loading pieces of shit.

Fixed it myself for me.

[DJKid]

"up to two golf clubs"

My golf game sucks bad enough trying to use all my damn clubs

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by petegz28

So I can bring a knife on the plane but not a large bottle of shampoo??? Our government, ladies and gents!

because a bottle of shampoo might have enough explosive to blow shit up


so there is a big difference

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

because a bottle of shampoo might have enough explosive to blow shit up


so there is a big difference

Yeah a bottle of shampoo MIGHT have explosives, but a small knife WILL allow someone to kill pilots and fly a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by lcarus

Yeah a bottle of shampoo MIGHT have explosives, but a small knife WILL allow someone to kill pilots and fly a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

it will?

someone can't take out a dude with a 2 inch knife? i think now people are a little more on the lookout / more willing to do something about a hijack

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

because a bottle of shampoo might have enough explosive to blow shit up


so there is a big difference

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by loochy

it will?

someone can't take out a dude with a 2 inch knife? i think now people are a little more on the lookout / more willing to do something about a hijack

2 inch knife, boxcutter..WTF is the difference?

[loochy]

Originally Posted by petegz28

2 inch knife, boxcutter..WTF is the difference?

if someone is hijacking a plane, i'll take on a dude with a tiny knife

[tooge]

I got my little keychain pocket knife taken by those bastards ( I hadn't flown in like 10 years) a few years ago because I simply forgot it was on my keys. Almost got arrested when I argued with the fat assed TSA guy and told him to enjoy using my knife.

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by loochy

if someone is hijacking a plane, i'll take on a dude with a tiny knife

I would hope so....

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by lcarus

Yeah a bottle of shampoo MIGHT have explosives, but a small knife WILL allow someone to kill pilots and fly a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

a small knife isn't getting someone pass the steel door to the cockpit.


a shampoo bottle of explosives might


or it could just blow a hole in the plane and decompress everything

[Ace Gunner]

this is monumental gov't legislation.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

a small knife isn't getting someone pass the steel door to the cockpit.


a shampoo bottle of explosives might


or it could just blow a hole in the plane and decompress everything

Until a terrorist puts a small knife to a woman or child's throat and says open this door or we spill some blood.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by lcarus

Until a terrorist puts a small knife to a woman or child's throat and says open this door or we spill some blood.

then the pilot just calls Jack Bauer or Chuck Norris