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Offline ash808boy

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Relocating an airsoft gun
« on: March 08, 2005, 01:43:18 AM »
When I go up to college in Arizona, i plan to bring my airsoft stuff up with me, one way or the other.  What would be the best way?  Sending it through the mail w/ orange tip and all markings covered or get it cleared by the airport and bring it on the airplane through that 'extra baggage' kind of thing where you would put a larger item than usual?  

I was just wondering if anyone knows what would be safer, cheaper, and just legal.
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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2005, 06:51:05 AM »
Are you living on or off campus.  If you're living in a dorm I wouldnt keep it there... not sure what the school policy is BUT schools are pretty strict about guns, pellet guns, etc.
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« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2005, 07:19:39 AM »
Well, if you mail it, its coming from HI so I dont see it would go through customs, so orange paint and trademark coverings are not needed. Rick
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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2005, 09:10:06 AM »
I'd go with Andyhinds on keeping them off campus.
Besides somebody will just steel or break them. You can go on planes with them. I think you just follow the same rules as real fire arms.
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« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2005, 09:37:55 AM »
What school are you planning on attending? Here at the University of Arizona, a kid was kicked out of his dorm merely for the possession of (and I'm not kidding) "sharpened chopsticks". Another was kicked out just a few days later for practicing with numchucks on campus! Neither one had done anything threatening - just the mere possession constituted them being kicked out of their dorms. So, unless you're living off campus, better find a better place to store all your airsoft!
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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2005, 12:59:13 PM »
If your going to school at ASU I will happily store them for you, im 2 miles from campus.
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« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2005, 03:21:37 PM »
Hmmm, I may go there too. Don't know if I'll live on campus though.
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« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2005, 04:53:39 PM »
To be safest I'd call up/go to the airport and ask about putting the airsoft guns in your baggage. I'd expect for safety you'll need them in a hard case and locked (like real ones) before you enter the airport, but may or may not need the tag saying it's a firearm. But to be safest if you're taking them on the plane definately talk to the people that will decide if it's allowed or not. Depending on the hassles with that shipping in a box with the gun semi-dissassembled should be fine, may help to include some documentation with it that it's not real etc just in case, but as Rick mentioned customs shouldn't worry about it bc/it's already in the US.
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« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2005, 05:07:35 PM »
If you have your own room you could just get a huge, square, soft-sided guitar case that says fender or something on the side to get them in and out of the building. ;)
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« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2005, 05:21:48 PM »
If you do check them with the airlines, don't let them put a tag on the bag saying that there's a firearm in there. I read an article in a gun magazine a while back and it said that it is not required by you to put a tag on, and all it does it tell some thief that you've got a gun in there. :shock:
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« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2005, 07:28:06 PM »
Yeah, that's all you'd need is some jerk ripping off your nice AEG in the middle of the airport.
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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2005, 08:09:05 PM »
Everytime we have transported airsoft guns for our Law- Enforcement training courses we had to declare them. Because if you don't they will be taken if the bag is X-rayed and the system detects a gun. Only once did we not have to delcare them and that was on our first trip in 2003. We argued the second time and lost. I have traveled about 10 times last year with Airsoft equipment.
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« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2005, 08:31:13 PM »
Quote from: "delta_echo"
a kid was kicked out of his dorm merely for the possession of (and I'm not kidding) "sharpened chopsticks". Another was kicked out just a few days later for practicing with numchucks on campus!  !



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« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2005, 10:15:02 PM »
Thanks a lot for the feed back guys.  I thought at first no one was gunna reply to it.  lol.  but i'm gunna go to northern arizona university...anyone live around flagstaff?  anyone know if there is a self-storage thing near by?  Thanks for the offer lightning man, but ASU seems too hot to live @.  

And yes, I will be dorming on campus.  Yea, i think i will get a single dorm room just in case i keep it in the dorm so my roommates friends don't go looking through my stuff yea.

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[/size]  What do you mean by delcare them?

....anyway, i don't think it would be conspicuous carrying a SAS bag through the campus right?  lol.  So you guys think fatigues are banned from the campuses as well?
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« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2005, 10:30:37 PM »
Fatiuges banned?  Nope.  Not in free America.  Maybe over there in Cali though.  In order to fly with an airsoft gun it must be treated as a real fiream. IE, in a locked hard sided case, unloaded, and declared as a firearm before you have it checked in. Rick
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