Hasta La Ideas

A harpoon gun, hand grenades, Bat-a-rangs (twice!), a “morning star” spiked flail, a 60mm mortar round, and of course handguns: These are all things you can’t carry onto an airplane. Ditto with these weird circular multi-bladed things, labeled “Fantasy throwing stars:”

But that doesn’t stop the millions of folks going through airport checkpoints each year from trying to smuggle these things through—often in carry-on luggage. With firearms alone, there were 1,477 discovered instances in 2013 alone, which is about four per day.

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