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[Binman62]

From today the TSA will ban the carriage of ink cartridges under Security Directive (SD) 1554-10-05. The web is awash with discussions on this with many questioning the efficacy of this and whether it will enhance passenger security. One comment I picked up on stated “The prohibition of printer ink and toner cartridges does nothing to enhance the security of passenger flights.”

Just how the carriage of these items will be restricted, particularly if in checked baggage is not clear yet the idea that bags will be checked prior to check in is surely unworkable and will cause travel disruption. Moreover the USA policy is more restrictive than the UK policy which applies to only hand luggage and cartridges above 500grams. In the US the size limit is 16oz (453grams) and applies to both hand and checked baggage. Clearly yet more evidence of the two nations and the world of aviation security working closely together!!!!

I was intrigued that whilst the web is awash with discussions on this directive that the TSA own web site produces little beyond a box which states that ink cartridge above 16oz are not allowed in checked or carry on baggage. Its own search box produces nothing when the SD number is inserted.

Would be great to have some first hand account of what is actually happening today if anything at all.

Perhaps more interestingly the TSA own website states under TSA week at a glance for week beginning Oct 25th
• 3 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints
• 11 firearms found at checkpoints
• 7 passengers were arrested after investigations of suspicious behaviour or fraudulent travel documents.
Is this for the whole of USA? In a nation so devoted to guns is anyone else surprised by the very low number of firearms found at checkpoints?

[MartynSinclair]

Astonished that anyone has the audacity to even try and conceal guns through an airport check point in the USA. A bit like a cow wanting to go on a vacation to an abattoir!

What the web site doesnt say is if the guns were found on “Government minders or officials” who thought they had the right to carry the metal through the checkpoints. Last year I sat on a jet blue flight next to the Governor of Florida , Charlie Christ (well on the other side of the aisle, same row) and he had a minder “packing a colt”.

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