are ice skates considered to be a weapon?
My son would like to take his hockey skates with us on an upcoming trip. These skates have about an 11 inch long rather sharp blade on them. To me, they're sporting equipment; will the TSA see them as weapons?
We'd rather not put them in checked luggage because they were a rather expensive custom order, and my son has them nicely broken in now, so would be extremely upset to have them stolen by the luggage gremlins.