I'm thinking in what some people might consider a very weird way: I don't want to have to either "declare a firearm" in my luggage or use a bagcam to keep things from being stolen out of my luggage. I simply want TSA clerks to have _no_ authority to touch luggage once they clear it through the checked-baggage bomb sniffer.

So I'm wondering if this is the case. When my bag comes out of the TSA bomb sniffer and an airline employee grabs it, is the TSA done with that bag for good? Or can they go under the airport and force airlines to fork over checked bags?