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Can I Take It? Airline Restrictions
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Not sure if you can take your meat cleaver on vacation with you? Here are the items forbidden for carry-on.
| | Personal Items:
Snow globes and other like decorations regardless of size or amount of liquid inside, even with documentation. |
| | Sharp Objects:
Box Cutters
Ice Axes/Ice Picks
Knives except for plastic or round-bladded butter knives.
Meat Cleavers
Razor-Type Blades such as box cutters, utility knives, razor blades not in cartridge, but excluding safety razors.
Sabers
Swords |
| | Sporting Goods:
Baseball Bats
Bow and Arrows
Cricket Bats
Golf Clubs
Hockey Sticks
Lacrosee Sticks
Pool Cues
Ski Poles
Spear Guns |
| | Firearms, Guns and Ammunition:
Ammunition, check with airline to see if permitted in checked baggage, if so, must be declared at check in. Small arms ammunitions for personal use must be securely packed in fiber, wood or metal boxes or other packaging specifically designed to carry small amounts of ammunition.
BB Guns
Compressed Air Guns, carried in checked luggage must be without compressed air cylinder.
Firearms, must be checked and unloaded, packed in a locked hard-sided container, & declared at check-in.
Flare Guns
Gun Powder
Parts of Guns or Firearms
Pellet Guns
Realistic Replicas of Guns
Starter Pistols |
| | Tools:
Axes and Hatchets
Cattle Prods
Crowbars
Hammers
Drills and Drill Bits including cordless, portable power drills.
Saws including cordless, portable power saws.
Tools greater than 7 inches in length.
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| | Martial Arts/Self Defense:
Billy Clubs
Brass Knuckles
Black Jacks
Kubatons
Mace/Pepper Spray, one 118 ml or 4 fl. oz. container of mace or pepper spray is permitted in checked luggage provided it is equipped with a safety mechanism to prevent accidental discharge.
Martial Arts Weapons
Night Sticks
Nanchukas
Stun Gun/Shocking Devices
Throwing Stars |
| | Explosive Material:
Blasting Caps
Dynamite
Fireworks
Flares in any form
Hand Grenades
Plastic Explosives
Realistic Replicas of Explosives |
| | Flammable Items:
Aerosol, any except personal care or toiletries in limited quantities.
Fuels including cooking fuels and any flammable liquid fuel.
Gasoline
Gas Torches
Lighter Fluid
Lighters
Strike-Anywhere Matches
Turpentine and Paint Thinner
Realistic Replicas of Incindiaries |
| | Diabling Chemicals and Dangerous Items:
Chlorine for pools and spas
Compressed Gas Cylinders including fire extinguishers.
Liquid Bleach
Spillable Batteries except those in wheelchairs.
Spray Paint
Tear Gas
Alcohol Brought from outside the security checkpoint, unless in 3 ounce containers or smaller, carried in a 1 quart (1 liter), plastic zip-top bag. |
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Source:
Transportation Security Administration
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