Flying with Vulcan
Fellas-
My new vulcan is going to have to take two airline flights to get home to me: one from my buddy’s place in ohio to our other buddy’s bachelor party in south carolina, and another with me from there to el salvador where I live.
Ive been doing some research online to see what the regulations are for traveling with airguns. The oficial tsa site says the following:
“Compressed Air Guns, including rifles and pistols (to include paintball markers) – [may be] Carried in checked luggage without compressed air cylinder attached.”
Later, it says “Fire extinguishers and other compressed gas cylinders are prohibited”
I’ve also read about other people on the way to hunts and field target events having their spare air cylinders revoked, or being made to disassemble them.
It almost seems like if you take the tank off the gun, then it will fall in the category of a compressed gas cylinder and thus be prohibitted.
Does anyone know anything about this? Am I actually expected to completely disassemble the gun prior to flying? It CLEARLY states that airguns are not firearms and thus do NOT have to put in a locked hardcase and declared at check in. In theory you just stick them in your bag and thats that. But what am I to make of this compressed air cylinder removal stuff?
No, shipping it is not a realistic option, unless I wanted to spend almost as much as the gun itself, which I dont.
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Welp I thanks to you guys I was able to degas and remove the end cap so I guess I’m going with the old gun in box in checked bag with air cylinder cap off and a note to tsa. We’ll see how it works tomorrow.
Thanks guys.
I didn’t mean a carry on I meant as regular luggage. Anyway to de-gas the Vulcan just slightly unscrew the cocking indicator slowly.
Like this
Im not familiar with vulcan…..
I would not shoot it empty…. you may crush your valve spring…..
someone should be able to tell you how to degas it.
Hmm…
To degas it I just shoot the thing until its on empty? Or is there another way to do that?
Then I just twist off the end and that’s it?
Again I apologize profusely for my complete ignorance and voracious noobishness.
Honestly i think you are better off treating it like a firearm. Put it in a locked case and send it through.
Degas it…. Take the front cap off the airtube if you want.
The TSA isn’t gonna tell the difference between it and a real gun….
Is it possible to remove the cylinder from the gun and open the cylinder up so that the TSA guys can look inside? Or is that something that will just damage it?
If so, how do you do it?
Excuse my ignorance I still haven’t met my new gun yet.
Of course I would never consider bringing it in carry on. Given that they don’t let you bring a water bottle on, it’s clear that they wouldn’t be ok with an airgun hahaha.
Alright so in your experience, I should de-gas it and then just stash it in the checked bag? Do you think they will care that I haven’t taken the air cylinder off?
If you try to carry on an airgun you will not make it pass TSA. I would suspect you may get arrested and then you’ll have to do some serious explaining to get out of being charged. I have flown with airguns and firearms both. You are better off just following the rules for firearms. Also before you go to your TSA inspection de-gas the Vulcan. If you have ever had to deal with the TSA regarding weapons you wouldn’t even think about transporting your airgun that way.
http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/firearms-and-ammunition
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The vulcan went through 4 total flights over the weekend, degassed with the cylinder cap removed in an unlocked box inside a backpack. No issues whatsoever. The TSA didn’t even bother opening the bags to check.