How do I get a gun onto a plane?

[Harry Flashman]

Heh. Legally, of course. Flying for a stag weekend in Scotland and there's shooting involved. Would very much like to take my own shotguns - but how do I do this? Absolutely no help from airline websites. I assume you have to notify them, rather than just check in with a locked flight case and hoping for the best...

[SplatSpeed]

ask a police man

[Mc Lovin]

make a run for it, surely worth a try?

[10 Pence Short]

The best way to get the answer is to turn up at the Terminal with your 12 bore under arm, and perhaps a couple of Spaniels for good measure. Demand to see the g'nor and don't take any jib from the peasants!

[Dirty Boy]

If you go there with it under your arm, demand you take it on, I suspect you'd have no problems getting it on the plane.

Getting the plane to take off might be more difficult.

[Munter]

I believe you give part of the gun to go in the hold. And take the other part with you as hand luggage. Thus it cant be used. I'd suggest the best thing would be to phone the airline and enquire. I'm fairly certain you cant take ammo on at all though.

[Plotloss]

You just check them into hold baggage.

When you get to the airport, go the customer services desk of the airline you're flying with and they'll tell you what to do.

[mouseymousey]

I went on a stag in Scotland where someone may or may not have wanted to take along something which may or may not have shown up during security checks at an airport. So we took the train.

[B.J.W]

Harry Flashman said:

Heh. Legally, of course. Flying for a stag weekend in Scotland and there's shooting involved. Would very much like to take my own shotguns - but how do I do this? Absolutely no help from airline websites. I assume you have to notify them, rather than just check in with a locked flight case and hoping for the best...

Flashers, simply instruct 'the help' to drive the Purdeys up to Scotland ahead of you. A gentlemen should never have to carry his own S/S's, the weight can seriously affect the cut of bespoke tweed jackets.

I would have thought you would have known better.

Edited by B.J.W on Tuesday 14th October 12:45

[R18 TJN]

If you are covered by The Countryside Alliance then you do have insurance to cover travel on planes (I think)... trigger lock and locked case in the hold and no cartridges you should be fine, worth checking though encase I am chatting st.. hope that helps

[Harry Flashman]

mouseymousey said:

I went on a stag in Scotland where someone may or may not have wanted to take along something which may or may not have shown up during security checks at an airport. So we took the train.

We're getting the tarts there, so don't need to take the train. Want to fly, to get to them more quickly.

Anyway, worried about just turning up, so will try to ask airlines. Return leg easy, as BA. Sadly easyjet on way up <shudder> and thinking that they may not be quite so helpful.

[Harry Flashman]

B.J.W said:

Harry Flashman said:

Heh. Legally, of course. Flying for a stag weekend in Scotland and there's shooting involved. Would very much like to take my own shotguns - but how do I do this? Absolutely no help from airline websites. I assume you have to notify them, rather than just check in with a locked flight case and hoping for the best...

Flashers, simply instruct 'the help' to drive the Purdeys up to Scotland ahead of you. A gentlemen should never have to carry his own S/S's, the weight can seriously affect the cut of bespoke tweed jackets.

I would have thought you would have known better.

Edited by B.J.W on Tuesday 14th October 12:45

The help's gone since I did the daughter. Apperently droit de seigneur is outmoded.

Bah.

[sleep envy]

Plotloss said:

You just check them into hold baggage.

When you get to the airport, go the customer services desk of the airline you're flying with and they'll tell you what to do.

yep, no cartridges though (unless you can buy them airside)

[Yertis]

Plotloss said:

You just check them into hold baggage.

When you get to the airport, go the customer services desk of the airline you're flying with and they'll tell you what to do.

Is it really that easy? I imagined that even mentioning the word "gun" to airline help desk was enough to get you banged up for the night (at least that's waht happened on "Airport" on TV)

[sleep envy]

Yertis said:

Plotloss said:

You just check them into hold baggage.

When you get to the airport, go the customer services desk of the airline you're flying with and they'll tell you what to do.

Is it really that easy? I imagined that even mentioning the word "gun" to airline help desk was enough to get you banged up for the night (at least that's waht happened on "Airport" on TV)

yep, just need to take licence with you

have taken shotguns abroad although I had to notify the local plod at my destination

[camgear]

Violin case

[B.J.W]

Yertis said:

Plotloss said:

You just check them into hold baggage.

When you get to the airport, go the customer services desk of the airline you're flying with and they'll tell you what to do.

Is it really that easy? I imagined that even mentioning the word "gun" to airline help desk was enough to get you banged up for the night (at least that's waht happened on "Airport" on TV)

Quite.

In our enlightened times I can imagine the machine gun peppering you would immediately receive after answering the question:

"Anything to declare Sir"?

"I have a gun"

Almost as worse as,

"I have a dinky carriage clock"

[Flintstone]

Munter said:

I believe you give part of the gun to go in the hold. And take the other part with you as hand luggage. Thus it cant be used. I'd suggest the best thing would be to phone the airline and enquire. I'm fairly certain you cant take ammo on at all though.

Not quite.

The guns and ammunition must be separated. Technically one could go as hand luggage and the other in the hold providing the hold is inaccessible during flight.

Maximum shotguns shells ('sporting ammunition') is Class I. Allowance should not exceed 5kg per passenger, must be declared to the carrier (airline) and marked with the appropriate stickers and codes.

As someone already said. Call your airline well in advance and see what their policy is.

[Plotloss]

sleep envy said:

Plotloss said:

You just check them into hold baggage.

When you get to the airport, go the customer services desk of the airline you're flying with and they'll tell you what to do.

yep, no cartridges though (unless you can buy them airside)

Not least because you'll set off the sensors and end up with the business end of an MP5K up your nose.

[B.J.W]

Harry Flashman said:

B.J.W said:

Harry Flashman said:

Heh. Legally, of course. Flying for a stag weekend in Scotland and there's shooting involved. Would very much like to take my own shotguns - but how do I do this? Absolutely no help from airline websites. I assume you have to notify them, rather than just check in with a locked flight case and hoping for the best...

Flashers, simply instruct 'the help' to drive the Purdeys up to Scotland ahead of you. A gentlemen should never have to carry his own S/S's, the weight can seriously affect the cut of bespoke tweed jackets.

I would have thought you would have known better.

Edited by B.J.W on Tuesday 14th October 12:45

The help's gone since I did the daughter. Apperently droit de seigneur is outmoded.

Bah.

Not round my way, perfectly acceptable and still the best means for a young girl without means to improve her social standing, even if that social standing is limited to bearing the bd offspring of the local squire.