does anyone know wether it is permitted to carry a rescue tool(knife with a blunt nose) such as benchmade auto stryker rescue on person, onborad a plane. I read the guidelines for what you can carry it is said knife with rounded nose(such as a butter knife) was ok. But a benchmade auto stryker is alot sharper.
Thanks

I wouldn't bet my knife on it.

It depends a lot on the airport and who you are flying with this sort of thing so I can't give you a definative answer. However they have started to be very picky about ANY kind of sharp object whatsoever. If this is the knife in question:

http://www.midwestgunexchange.com/itemdetails.cfm?id=5963

I would say little to no chance as it looks like a knife (which it is) regardless of the rounded nose they probably are not going to let you take it on your person. They have stopped me for having a pair of nail clippers before, so I would be very surprised if they let you carry anything like that.

Nowadays I would say to always put anything remotely sharp into your hold baggage (anything from scissors to nail clippers to knives of all desciptions) as chances are they will take it off you at security and the number one method for never seeing something again when you get to the other end is if they take it off you at security.

The answer is, I believe, nope, nope, and nope. The one and only 'tool' allowed on a plane, or so I've read, is an eyeglass screwdriver. And you'd better be wearing eyeglasses.

Besides, if you try to carry any sort of fancy and expensive tool through security, it will be tempting for the guards to declare it a 'weapon' so they may relieve you of it legally.

If they wouldn't let my wife carry one of her small paintings done on plywood on board ("You could use it as a weapon," they told her.), I don't think they're going to let you carry anything that looks at all like a blade.

Y'all better watch those lethal cotton balls...

Hey, are these airport guys the same ones who have been letting hijackers on board planes for the last 40 years, or have they got new ones, paying them an extra 25 cents an hour?

I guess it's back to the old hairspray & the Bic.

Sue

For that matter, anything at all can be used as a weapon, including one's hands if one knows karate or something.

This paranoia has stepped off the edge.

Or just plain steal it. It seems like every week there is ANOTHER case of TSA baggage screeners stealing jewelry, money, cameras, computers, clothing, you name it, from the bags that they have decreed MUST be unlocked in the name of security.
Oh, yeah, I feel a lot safer flying these days ...

I think I put up a reply in a similar thread about the abundance of deadly weapons and/or useful emergency tools that could be constructed with absolutely nothing other than a laptop computer. I'm talking about weapons that would make a 3" pocketknife look harmless by comparison! Explosives, incendiary devices, projectiles and some very large sharps, many of which could be roughly constructed in less than a minute by a lot of people with the proper aptitude. I'm not going to get in to a big discussion on how this would be done so don't ask. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I live real close to the Bell Helicopter plant so I already have enough black choppers flying around over my house.... don't need any more. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I was (and am again) simply pointing out the irony in our current security procedures, while at the same time I realize that any security (okay almost any) is better than no security and we must start somewhere. By the way... if you're looking at your laptop right now and pondering this... yes you would have to completely destroy it in the process. You think the TSA would find it humorous if they started seeing bumper stickers on laptops that read "In Case of Emergency Break Glass"? Probably not... LOL. Actually with a 4th grade education, a lot of them probably wouldn't get the joke. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Like most people I would love see airport security personal have the same level of training and education as SOCOM officers. Unfortunately the majority of taxpayers aren't willing to pay Westpoint graduates to do that type of work <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />.

In the good old days, 60 Minutes would have done a hidden camera expose of the wrongdoing, with photographic evidence of theft.

There would be a front page scandal, when the Powers That Be would be forced to do something about it. There would be denials, accusations, finger-pointing, firings, and resignations.

Now no one cares, I guess.