This.

<deleted>, I respect your intelligence, I really do, but you are not reading and processing.

Read very carefully.

My nitro pills were NOT confiscated on MEDICAL grounds, although the TSOs (and LTSO and STSO and suits) reaffirmed what is on the website: individual TSOs are allowed to exercise judgment and deny any medicine or medical device at any time.

My bottle of pills was confiscated because it contains a substance that is not allowed in any quantity or form at any time.

IE, my bottle of pills was confiscated for the same reason it would have been confiscated if, instead of containing nitro pills, it contained gasoline or little bits of C4.

Multiple TSOs and suits agreed with this line of reasoning, and somewhere on the internet there's a report from someone else who had his nitro pills confiscated (before I did, IIRC).

If I were challenged at a checkpoint today and the TSOs would do something they've never been reported doing for anyone else, if they called up the website for an answer, my pills would still get confiscated today for the same reason they did before. They contain a prohibited substance.

The reasoning doesn't surprise me: it's the same zero-tolerance logic that confiscates an expensive clear glass bottle of perfume that someone decides looks like a grenade, therefore it gets confiscated like a real grenade.

<deleted>, you have spoken many times about how great things are at GSO. That's great, I'll take your word for it that you never witness anything unprofessional or retaliatory or just plain ridiculous.

Unfortunately, I don't fly through GSO, so sometimes things aren't as perfect as they are at your checkpoint. Next time you fly through a major airport in civvies, just for grins, go up to a group of TSOs and ask if nitro is allowed and see what response you get. Then ask 'are you sure?' and watch even TSOs who might know someone who carries nitro pills suddenly go all 'abundance of caution' and say 'no'.

Additionally, another TSO has revealed here that his airport has SSI rules governing things like walking canes - those very specific rules are not available to the public but were the basis for trying to confiscate a 'light saber' walking stick. Do you know for a fact that there are not similar SSI rules at other airports governing nitro?