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Old Mar 16, 2015 | 5:31 pm
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Originally Posted by CDTraveler
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.
TSA website says that ice skates are OK for carry-on.
http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-informat...ohibited-items

You might, of course, get the "rules changed, website is out of date, yadda yadda" claim from the TSA, but they should be entirely fine.
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