Why does this portion exist?
provided that no person shall be prohibited from carrying any legal firearm into the terminal, which firearm is encased for shipment for purposes of checking such firearm as baggage to be lawfully transported on any aircraft
Reading the whole clause implies that cannot carry any firearms into the passenger accessible area of the airport unless they are prepared to be checked unloaded as baggage. The legislative intent is pretty obvious to me.
Does anyone have a copy of Link Removed and get his opinion on it? The Statute and DOACS site is pretty straight forward to me. Sterile area and terminal is the entire airport building.
I'm a corporate jet pilot, I take alot of trips where I just reposition a jet somewhere in the country or I take a jet somewhere where the passengers are staying for 10-14 days and the pilots get to fly home. Then we fly back to take the plane/passengers back home after their stay. I bring my gun always.
I can tell you this, I have transported my gun many times on the airlines. All I do is bring my gun to the check-in counter, in the case, and tell them I need to check it in with my checked luggage. Most of the time its my only piece of checked luggage because I know I'm going right home. It has to have a lock on it and be unloaded in the case, but the full clip can be in the case with the gun, thats it. One time they asked me to unlock the combination lock to see the gun inside the case, then I just locked it back up and they took it.
I also walk around the non-secure areas of the airport with my gun all the time. The only place I don't go, of course, is through security to go into the terminal.
The terminal is the part of the airport AFTER you have gone through security to the GATES.
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