Birminham airport CC question..

[santahog]

I leave for the airport in a couple of hours. I can't find anything directly on the airport or handgunlaw.us site governing how far I can go before I have to lose the thing..
Anybody know?

[Timothy]

Call the TSA at the airport.  If you're traveling with a handgun in a locked container, they're the ones who you will go talk to anyway!

[santahog]

Dropping off the wife.. Info available just says TSA rules about what isn't allowed bast security at gate.. Al is pretty cool at the state level on CC but I want to know specifically and I didn't think to ask BEFORE TIME TO GO!!!!!

[1Buckshot]

As memory serves me (not good at time's), I do believe there was a member a few years back that had gone shooting and had to go by the airport for some reason. He had the guns locked in the trunk but that didn't mater. He was busted in the parking lot by a guard with a bomb sniffing dog. Better check it out with TSA and the Airport.
Monty,

[kmitch200]

Don't know about your state but here you can have your CCW up to the secure area. Can't get by it without a plane ticket anyway, so no big deal. 

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[santahog]

Don't know about your state but here you can have your CCW up to the secure area. Can't get by it without a plane ticket anyway, so no big deal. 

It seems that AL. law is silent on airport carry but I dumped it in the console before I went in, just in case. The wife is in transit to Sao Paulo as I write.. (I'm bored till Christmas day now..) I didn't want to create a situation that would impede her progress.. I looked around and didn't see any postings or any visible problems up to Gate Security..
I really do hate going anywhere unarmed.. I usually even drop a revolver in my pocket on the way down to the mail box.. (The only problem is that that revolver is an N Frame .45 snubbie. No pajamas to the mailbox. It requires a full sized pocket.. )

[MikeBjerum]

If you haven't left yet - check your state law!

In Minnesota you are ok until you reach TSA check point, so just dropping off and even assisting to the counter is ok.  However, each state can be different!

[fightingquaker13]

No way in hell I would carry one into an airport, even outside the secured area. To me that is just begging for pain. It might even get sporty if its in the car, but I'm willing to take that risk. I don't care what the law SAYS, what the law IS is up to the cop that freaks out about you having a gun until your expensive lawyer explains the difference. I'd take my chances moving from the short term parking to the airport and leave the gun in the car, but that's just me.
FQ13.

[Pathfinder]

If you haven't left yet - check your state law!

In Minnesota you are ok until you reach TSA check point, so just dropping off and even assisting to the counter is ok.  However, each state can be different!

Very true - your neighbors to the NW allow CCW in a lot of places, but not "public gatherings or buildings" so no joy on the into the airport carry in ND.

[santahog]

... I don't care what the law SAYS, what the law IS is up to the cop that freaks out about you having a gun until your expensive lawyer explains the difference.
FQ13.

I've had an unfortunate experience with that too.. I'll go you one more. It can be what somebody's attorney says, not what the law says, too..
It's so strange to watch a judge ask the attorney what the law is.. I'm guessing that only happens in blue juristictions..