Rich Thomas wrote:
The TSA will safeguard the flying public and anyone on the ground below by cutting open your bag/lock if it has a padlock on it. How many tools survive that experience is questionable. They like to rummage around in bags that have anything solid in them (i.e., non-clothes items).
A friend who works as a field tech and regularly flies with a checked bag of tools tells me that ever since they stopped allowing locks, he generally loses one tool per flight. He says Leatherman tools seem to be the favorites of sticky-fingered baggage handlers and TSA inspectors.
