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Grex Agora41 Item 130: Which is more frightening? That this is a true story or that I lived to tell about it.
Entered by jp2 on Sun Apr 28 01:49:21 UTC 2002:

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#1 of 11 by jp2 on Sun Apr 28 02:03:25 2002:

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#2 of 11 by bdh3 on Sun Apr 28 05:43:21 2002:

When I heard that one last is was 'handle to my fighting knife' which
makes more sense.  

Now *this* is a true story.  Well over 20 years ago me ma bought me 
an Uzi.  She really wanted to buy me the 'ultra-suede' sports coat 
at Liberty House (hawaii's equivelent to Neiman-Marcus).  I insisted
the only way she could buy me the jacket (close to 700$US) was if
I also got the Uzi from Sharper Image.  Yep, Sharper Image sold 
guns for a short time (the anti-gun nuts pitched a fit over the
toys and they quickly stopped selling them).  It is a full size
fully functional non-gun made of metal (with one part made of plastic
unlike the original).  It functions, strips, contains all the
same parts as the real Uzi.  It fires brass 'blanks' either single
or auto-fire and the barrel has a bar forged down the center of it.
It is carefully designed not to be convertable to an actual firearm
and all parts are carefully designed to be identical but not
interchangable with the real weapon (I had to take a file to a real
Uzi hard stock to use it on the model and re-thread the barrel nut on
the suppressor attachment - yep, gots real Uzi parts on the stock 
japanese toy).  MPC and Marushin were the original manufacturers of 
a full line of 'replica' or model guns for 40-50 years in Japan and 
this one is a Marushin.  Anyways, me da and I watched while the 
checked suitcase with the Uzi went through X-ray (Hawaii X-rays 
all baggage and has since the early '70s and before
that everything was hand inspected).  Watched while my suitcase 
came up on the monitor - clearly an Uzi- and the screener sat up
for a moment and clearly mentally went through the list - 'drugs,
money, agricultural products (the real reason all baggage is xrayed
both in and out), nobrodda say noting from uzis' - and then went
on to the next bag.  (I also used to smuggle fireworks out come
to think of it....)

These days things probably would be different, but maybe not.

#3 of 11 by jp2 on Sun Apr 28 05:47:41 2002:

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#4 of 11 by bdh3 on Sun Apr 28 06:42:18 2002:

Nope.

#5 of 11 by jp2 on Sun Apr 28 06:49:28 2002:

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#6 of 11 by bdh3 on Sun Apr 28 07:14:49 2002:

Must be.

#7 of 11 by jazz on Fri May 3 15:36:34 2002:

        I had one of those Japanese replica pistols, in my case a Walther PPK.
Outside of the fact that it used plastic components in place of metal ones
in quite a few places, it looked and handled remarkably like a real Walther
PPK.  Whatever posessed you to try and take it into an airport?

#8 of 11 by other on Sat May 4 01:21:13 2002:

So I was in line this morning at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, waiting to go
through security, when word came down the line that we were all supposed to
move the line back a little.  After a few minutes, the same request came
again.  After some more time spent waiting, and much speculation, it was
announced that there had been a security breach, and that the C and D
concourses were closed and all passengers on gated aircraft were to be
deboarded and rescreened.  My fellow travelers debated for a bit and finally,
after an hour and some spent waiting for the line to move, while it in
actuality grew to extend all the way back out the front doors, decided to rent
a car and drive back.  Drive time from Hopkins to DTW: 2.5 hours.

#9 of 11 by jmsaul on Sat May 4 06:06:46 2002:

That's damn fast, given how much of the trip was in Ohio.

#10 of 11 by other on Sat May 4 15:12:32 2002:

I napped for most of it.  Fortunately, I wasn't driving.

#11 of 11 by gelinas on Sun May 5 02:36:04 2002:

That was, indeed, fortunate.

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