This tiny supercheap Gerber multitool comes with me on trips

Gotcha.

Yeah, that would be my biggest apprehension is that you’d buy one, even print out some “TSA approved” paperwork or whatever, just to have some indifferent/authoritarian/knuckle-dragging TSA arbitrarily agent confiscate it. At least that would save the whole plane from whatever terror I could inflict with a tiny piece of metal.