“America’s worst superhero™”
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Florida man
USA’s secret weapon…
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What a gentleman.
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Florida Man is upping his game in the armaments department.
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I believe that MAH – RUH – LOG – O is in FLA – RAH – DUH, home of Florida Man #1.
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I suspect that he didn’t properly package and declare it. You must declare firearms. They MUST be in a hard-sided case with secure locks.
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“reenactor”
Wait.
reenactor
Do you mean LARPer?
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Potato, Potato.
Oh, I quite like the headline as it implies that there are also civilian rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
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It seems he may be in the clear, but are we 100% certain he is not a Florida Gentleman?
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It does sound as if the device is not a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. It is a stage prop that resembles a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
I don’t know of a Federal regulation that forbids placing stage props in checked luggage, but it appears that many such regulations are secret, so that those who must comply have know way to know what they must do to be in compliance. There probably is a regulation forbidding stage props that resemble prohibited objects.
Incidentally, firearms in checked baggage, if lawful otherwise, are perfectly legal. That said, it’s unwise. New Jersey, in particular, has prosecuted passengers who arrived there unexpectedly - with no intention ever to visit New Jersey - because their plane landed on account of unfavourable weather. The passengers were held to be in constructive possession of firearms that were unlawful in New Jersey. Revell v Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (cert denied).
The device probably falls afoul of FRS 790.165. That law appears to translate to, “if you have anything to do with something that any cop thinks is a ‘destructive device’, you’re already guilty of a second-degree felony. No mens rea required, and the judge has no discretion to suspend or reduce the sentence in the light of any circumstance (other than that you’ve squealed on co-conspirators).”
There’s an exception in the law applying to theatrical companies, but as the law reads, it applies only “during the course of a rehearsal or performance”. Having the device in the property room when no rehearsal or performance is going on would still be a felony.
An eager prosecutor can send Florida Man up the river for a very long time.
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RED 2, if I’m not mistaken.
The original was better.
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The TSA would shit their pants if they saw what I brought back in my checked luggage from Japan in 2009.
As far as I can remember I brought all of my Japanese airsoft guns home in checked luggage, no orange tips, and there was a Mac 10 with a Vietnam kit silencer, an M4A1 S System, a fully automatic Glock 18 with two extended clips, a Sig Sauer with custom Tanio Koba rifled barrel and valve upgrades, and a 100 shot pellet grenade. All of it cast from original actual guns and nearly indistinguishable from the real deal including down to the weight.
I regularly played indoor airsoft games every week on Sunday in Sapporo and in summer and fall on the hillsides of Otaru and Biei (the town famous for endless lavender fields)
I had it all in a rifle case and it was all perfectly legal to import so long as I put orange tape on the barrels which I never did.
At the time they let me put this in checked baggage, but my snowboard of all things was no go. Go figure 
I tried to pack metal handcuffs in my carry-on when I was little. They were replicas with a safety release mechanism but airport security made us pack them in a box and had it put into checked luggage. It’s one of my more vivid memories of pre-TSA air travel.
That scene was In Red 1. Unless It’s based on some other flick I’m unaware of?
Also agreed. RED was much better than RED2.
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Not only are replica guns not prohibited, real guns are allowed in check in baggage. This is another over reaction from the TSA to justify their useless existence. Like when they confiscate bullet belts that the belt links are just in bullet shapes or hand granade lighters and such. If that guy wanted his RPG shaped stick back he could get it.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/01/the_tsa_proves.html
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I thought California and Texas were seceding…
It’s all a blur now, but I know I saw both at some point.
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I wonder what the TSA would do if someone refused to relinquish a real RPG. For instance a terrorist?
By the time the TSA could possibly find something dangerous, terrorists could use it to maim and kill possibly hundreds of people and disrupt air travel for a long time anyway.
They don’t prevent terrorism at all. They spend money, waste time, and make republicans feel like the bush admin accomplished something of worth.
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