Uhm ACHTULLY the RPG-2, which is on display here, is closer to a recoilless rifle except it isn't rifled. There is no rocket propelling the grenade, so the TSA is wrong and should be disbanded and give this man his property back.
You learn something new every day
Pretty clearly a hole drilled in the tube. It's deactivated, doesn't count as a destructive device. Technically legal to own, not sure about taking it on an aircraft.
Illegal or not, what kind of schmuck would bring a fucking RPG onto a plane knowing well what reactions it would incite
The stupid kind?
Same type of people who ran into a police station while holding assault rifles because muh 2nd amendment rights.
Except this is an inert metal tube checked into luggage, not an actual weapon waved around to scare people or push boundaries. Good on TSA for due diligence, but I don't see the rationale for confiscating it.
The article says this:
"However, no realistic or replica weapons of military nature are permitted to be brought onto airplanes," the TSA press release said.
And that's bullshit. TSA's luggage rules explicitly allow you to fly with both replica and actual military weapons, it just has to be in checked luggage (which it was). If it's a functional firearm, you're required to declare it and follow some different rules, but people fly with realistic-looking replicas (eg airsoft, cosplay props) in checked luggage all the time.
No risk was posed to the aircraft, no risk was posed to other passengers, it was in checked luggage as it should be, but I guess TSA gets to just keep stuff if they feel like it?
Are you really going to do this?
If they ran in with a deactivated blunderbuss, that would be almost akin.. (visually obvious that it's historic, but not necessarily disabled)
Even then you can make the case that a guy running into a police station with a blunderbuss is actually threatening, whereas checked luggage isn't harming anyone and can't be accessed on the flight.
I mean, 'everyone should be able to carry real-looking inert anti-tank weapons on planes' isn't the hill I want to die on, but it really rubs me the wrong way that TSA investigated, determined there was no threat or law broken, and then confiscated it while citing a policy that does not exist. They just stole the guy's property and made up a reason.
I don't think I'd try to take an RPG through airport security, inert or otherwise, since this exact situation is basically inevitable, but the TSA had no rights to confiscate this thing and like catbarf said they completely invented a policy to justify it. Their own website says:
https://i.gyazo.com/a8856980132be22e8cf0f73b21aab141.png
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