Stopped using them since he likes to hang out at the C C/P in the early AM shift on Monday (my usual transit time). I still carry them, still pull them out of the bag and place them next to my laptop for the X-ray search. The combo lock also makes it much more difficult for the TSA employees to just grab my stuff and start walking over to do a bag search; it forces them to ask whose bag it is, since they will need to have the locks opened before they can proceed with whatever search they want to perform.

For full disclosure, I got PO'd at the FSD and yelled at him that HIS personnel just looked directly at the scissors as they passed through the x-ray next to the laptop and cleared them. Once I stated that, the MdTA officer spoke up and tried to defuse the situation, since it was readily apparent that I was pissed and the hackles were rising on the FSD...