Originally Posted by jkhuggins

With respect, I think you missed my point.

Your point, as I understand it, was "sucks to be you with your luggage stuck in some other city with your firearm, and now because your luggage was opened during screening, it can't be sent back to you".

My point is this: sucks to be the airline with a firearm on its hands that isn't under the control of its owner. For example:



See? No problems for the passenger, only the airline.