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Traveling with photo gear - Read This
Andrew Knapik, Photographer, Assistant
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Lincoln Park | MI | USA | Posted: 8:04 AM on 06.19.10 |
->> I found this from my Twitter feed, and I thought I would share here.
If you travel with camera gear, this is a must read on how to better protect your gear. http://j.mp/bJwOB4 |
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Ian Halperin, Photographer
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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| | | Posted: 9:53 AM on 06.19.10 |
->> Andrew,
I wrote about this in some detail in August of 2008 here
- Protecting Your Sensitive Valuables In Checked Baggage : A Last Resort: http://bit.ly/5RL7zJ
The Life Hacker story on travel tips was in fact largely lifted from a few well read airline and travel blogs back in January (which has been discussed in other venues in detail)
Keep in mind that should you choose to travel with a starter pistol ... you must be flying on US Domestic flight only ... and baggage containing documented weapons are increasingly going missing at an alarming rate.
When a gun goes missing, or a bag containing a gun goes missing, the statistics get skewed because no one in the chain of custody of the bag is actually tasked with the responsibility of ensuring the bags security.
I have written about this as well, the last article on my blog is here
- How Can Guns Get Stolen From Check Baggage & Go Unnoticed? : http://bit.ly/aprZEb
There have been documented incidents of military rifle cases not showing up or showing up empty, which means that somewhere between the TSA/Law Enforcement inspection, the airline accepting the bag, the ramp-agent handling the bag, the bag being loaded, unloaded, placed in a transfer bin, reloaded, unloaded and delivered ... all in a 'sterile environment' someone walked off unnoticed with a military rifle.
Stolen hand guns, from what I can find (and again statistics are hard to find because no one knows where in the process they are stolen, thus no jurisdiction is determined for the theft), up to a dozen documented checked weapons are stolen or go missing each week in the United States.
I'd write more about it, but I have spent a few months trying to find hard numbers that do not exist ... and neither airlines, airports, independent ramp handling companies, the TSA, DHS or airport law enforcement agencies want to discuss this problem. |
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