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  "She packed my bags last night pre-flight."
context: Always glad when rocket launchers get picked up by security. >
  
  AKCHTUALLY it's a recoilless rifle. >
  
  many carl gustaf rounds are rockets >
  
  The weapon is still a recoiless rifle. >
  
  and it still launches rockets >
  
  You can shoot rockets out of a gun. 
  You can't shoot gun rounds out of a rocket launcher. >
  
  i don't think that's necessarily true.  pretty much all rocket launchers besides the m1 bazooka and the panzerfaust1 the rocket is ejected explosively before the rocket motor activates so that the user doesn't get a face full of exhaust.  if you can fling rockets out like that you ought to be able to fling non rocket projectiles. >
  
  
  pretty much all rocket launchers 
  
  Like the Javelin guided missile, and... uh.... hmm.... >
  
  RPG 7,  Panzerfaust3,  M72 LAW,  AT4... >
  
  I mean if this wasn’t packed with ammo this would be totally legal provided it was properly declared. 
  It’s just basically a metal tube without ammo. >
  
  Per another article, the weapon was made “demilitarized” for display purposes.
  
  The passenger was able to provide paperwork verifying the rifle’s de-militarized status. An on-duty TSA explosives specialist also corroborated that it was no longer in use. >
  
  Can’t be having that in the headline though. >
  
  Note the "problem" TSA had wasn't that it was a massive weapon, but rather that it was 'undeclared' at check in. >
  
  Man lot of airport gun stories today, but yea the issue isn't that they had a firearm in checked luggage it is that they didn't declare it. Though I believe this would be considered a destructive device. Not in the article but I'm assuming it was either an FFL holder or this was a deactivated and the owner thought he didn't have to declare it >
  
  Yup. My brother is a sheriff's deputy in CA and he just had to chat with tsa at both airports and that was that. I don't even think the ammo had to go in a separate checked bag or anything if im remembering correctly. >
  
  I didn't think you could send ammo at all. >
  
  You can.  They have to be in a container designed to hold the ammo and not in the gun, as well as the requirement to be in a locked container.  They can be in the same container as the gun, just not in the gun. >
  
  Yup sounds about right based on our experience. Gun case was locked and weapon was unloaded. >
  
  84 mm Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle for really big deer. >
  
  'Round about these parts the deer have taken to wearing bullet-proof vests. >
  
  They'll likely want some reactive plates for the shaped charge I'm assuming is in there. >
  
  It’s going to be tough to convince anyone that you accidentally packed that into your suitcase >
  
  It has been de-militarized it really isn't a weapon at this point.
  It is little more than a cos-play prop at this point. >
  
  Aka, not news