TSA Approved Handgun Safes

To avoid damage and ensure proper and secure storage, every handgun owner must think about investing on quality gun safes. Since each type of firearms have specific requirements for care and storage, finding out the necessary information and specifications that your handgun may require for storage or safekeeping is essential. One way of making sure that you get the right kind of handgun safes is by determining whether or not the product is TSA approved. TSA approval serves as a guarantee that you get not only the most appropriate or most secure safe. It also ensures that you get the best-valued handgun safes available in the market today.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the government's risk-based agency created to strengthen the security of the nation's transportation system, which include rail, highway, transit, aviation and pipeline sectors. The agency also works with various partners in mass transit industries, aviation, law enforcement and of course, the traveling public. The core of the TSA is to safeguard the safety of all American travelers by maintaining the highest level of security without compromising individual freedom. When TSA equates to high security standards, TSA approved handgun safes means handgun storage that are safest and most effective to use in storing or carrying your most valued metal product.

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Although the requirements for TSA approval on various travel cases have caused a lot of confusions, the agency applies these key regulatory requirements in transporting firearms such as handguns. Since firearms are never allowed as carry-on baggage, they require a hard-sided and locked container. By TSA standards, a locked container is one that completely secures its content from access by anyone other than its owner. In addition, Federal regulations prohibit the use of unlocked gun cases or cases with damaged locks, particularly on aircrafts.  In this light, packing your firearms inside a TSA approved handgun safe guarantees hassle-free travels or firearm transport.

In addition to locks, TSA also emphasizes the necessity of properly packing any ammunition or firearm on cases that are specifically designed for carrying these items. Hence, handgun safes make ideal storage or carrying cases for handguns as they already have the clips, locks and hard-sided body that the agency requires and strongly recommends for traveling. With that said, earning the TSA approval in various designs of handgun safes simply translates to effective design for handgun storage or transport.

Being a handgun owner, investing on a best-suited storage case must never be an option. Handguns remain to be the most popular and most preferred type of firearms, which unfortunately make it a common target for theft or robbery. Also, having proper storage for your handguns is a good way of safeguarding your gun from elements that may tarnish or eventually damage your metal valuables. The cost of TSA approved handgun safes is but a small price to pay in ensuring the security, precision, quality and your personal safety in handling, storing or carrying your handguns at home or in your office. When the market is already filled with an overwhelming number of handgun safes, looking for TSA approved products should trim down your shopping options.

TSA Guidelines For Traveling With Firearms

You may only transport firearms, ammunition and firearm parts in your checked baggage. Firearms, ammunition and firearm parts are prohibited from carry-on baggage.

Failure to adhere to the following regulations will preclude passengers from traveling with firearms, ammunitions or firearm parts:

• Travelers must declare all firearms, ammunition, and parts to the airline during the ticket counter check-in process.
• The firearm must be unloaded.
• The firearm must be in a hard-sided container.
• The container must be locked. A locked container is defined as one that completely secures the firearm from being accessed. Cases that can be pulled open with little effort cannot be brought aboard the aircraft. Federal regulations prohibit unlocked gun cases (or cases with broken locks) on aircraft.
• TSA inspects all firearm cases at the ticket counter. Travelers should remain in the area designated by the aircraft operator or TSA representative to take the key back after the container is cleared for transportation. If travelers are not present and the security officer must open the container, TSA or the airline will make a reasonable attempt to contact the owner. If contact is not made, the container will not be placed on the aircraft.
• Travelers must securely pack any ammunition in fiber (such as cardboard), wood or metal boxes or other packaging that is specifically designed to carry small amounts of ammunition.
• Travelers may not use firearm magazines/clips for packing ammunition unless they completely and securely enclose the ammunition (e.g., by securely covering the exposed portions of the magazine or by securely placing the magazine in a pouch, holder, holster or lanyard).
• Ammunition may be carried in the same hard-sided case as the firearm, as long as it follows packing guidelines described above.
• TSA prohibits black powder or percussion caps used with black-powder.