Taking paintball markers abroad?

[steven09 (Exodus Capt)]

Cheers guys for all this info
its a good job i asked



steve

 

[Mark]

Originally posted by CreaTure
i bought a gun while i was in florida and when i checked my bags in for boarding.i told them it was there and it had to be in a Locked hard case or they put it in a a hard case for you,you then hand it over and its taken down by hand,instead of on the
conveya belt,and then you will have to collect it from a desk where they will check it again when your at your destination and then you just walk through,if your taken your air you will it to be open without the valve in otherwise thats not allowed on the
plane...thats my 2 pence of experience..and that was flying with Virgin

Virgin's rules change with the wind...same thing happened to my entire team (12 people), we were told that we would have to put all the markers in a security case (were told that our tanks could stay in the suitcases as the valves were taken out)...they would provide this...they did..A CARDBOARD BOX !!! Yes, it was taken separately and yes, it was to be picked up from security when we got home...Yeah right ...came down the conveyer belt with all the normal bags. I have missed off some other crap that happened but then this is again down to check-in staff not knowing what paintball equipment etc is all about. BTW all this crap happened flying home to the UK, flying out was a simple affair of telling the people what we had, a quick look by security of just two of the group and we were all cleared.