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#10MinuteTalk – Flying with Guns

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Maybe you had no idea you could actually even fly with your firearms checked on a flight, maybe you did but haven’t done it before, or maybe you have done it, but still feel a little uneasy about it and aren’t totally sure how best to handle it next time – Never fear! Reuben and Adam join Jimmy and Mark to discuss this very topic. These two guys work in our dealer sales and training department and do range days and competitions and hunts all over the country so they fly with firearms all the time. After all that experience, they’ve been able to boil down how you should approach the situation with no fear of getting taken to that scary dark room in the back. **Disclaimer** – we are not lawyers, nor are we always going to be perfect in our interpretation or verbiage behind every federal law, state law, or in this case, individual airline regulation. You should always do your own research about your own situation at the given time given the complexity and changing nature of these things. Vortex and the hosts/guests of this podcast are not responsible for the actions of our viewers and listeners.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here with Adam Maxmo and Ruben Alex and across the table from Mark and myself. This is going to be another little mini series of 10 minute talks

0:08.0

So stay tuned to these ones and the theme amongst all, is traveling with the things we know and love, our firearms

0:16.8

and ammunition.

0:18.4

First one that we wanted to dive into right away, and I guess I'm speaking perhaps out of turn because later around when the editing comes in I don't know I'm just well I guess this one just going to come out first now but anyway

0:29.3

flying flying with firearms and ammunition. This is kind of a weird one to even think about for some people. I know some people do it all the time.

0:40.0

I know Rubin and Adam you guys do it fairly frequently Mark you've done it I've done it and yeah it feels weird to do

0:49.3

At first at first the first I even the question, you can do that?

0:53.0

Yeah, exactly.

0:54.0

That's more of a statement.

0:55.0

That's the thing.

0:56.0

Once you've done it a couple times, you realize, that just is what it is.

0:58.3

But the first time you do it, and I remember being in the airport with Eric after having done it a few times myself and

1:03.9

Eric, our dear friend, had never done it before and it was one of the most I've

1:07.9

never seen him sweat so much than I did when I saw him walk into the airport

1:12.2

with a closed safe firearm in a pelican case.

1:16.2

So explain what the deal is with flying, with firearms and ammunition.

1:21.6

I had the same experience, right? The first few times I did it, the first

1:25.2

several times I did it, I mean, I was nervous. I was wound tight. You know, it's super fidgety and all that stuff like ready to just get taken into the dark room with the light and get interrogated and all that stuff

1:38.6

setting off all their profiling red flags.

1:41.1

You look worse.

1:42.4

And I think yeah I think one thing that probably sets the stage for all of the horror stories we hear is that most people,

1:50.0

I'm going to go on a limb here. Aside from like Millelli, most people that fly with guns are going hunting.

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