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Old Oct 15, 2016 | 12:14 pm
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saizai
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Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much
Can't wait until the TSA gets hold of this one. The ban becomes effective at noon on Saturday. It's a flight safety issue but you know the TSA will turn it into a terrorism issue. (How else is the DOT expecting to enforce the ban?)
If a GN7 is WEI that can't be made safe/controlled (unlike e.g. a compressed oxygen tank), then it's a good thing for TSA to screen for it.

Doesn't have to be terrorism-y at all. If you have something that randomly catches fire and maybe explodes, there's no mens rea needed.

If anything, it's more dangerous than dynamite. Dynamite only goes off if you detonate it, and can otherwise be stored & transported quite safely.
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