I am usually the first or one of the first in line to board and had not been selected for the gate screening until last Saturday. The screener actually asked the guy ahead of me but he had already handed his ticket to the gate agent so the screener said, okay, either of you will do which of course meant me. I got the full wanding and nothing beeped, not my brass belt buckle that I always have top remove at security, not the two snaps that hold the buckle on the belt or the Flyertalk lapel pin I wear. Both the lapel pin and belt snaps have set off the wands at security when I have been wanded there. He searched my one carryon bag and all its various zippered pockets and totally ignored my jacket that I layed on the table and could have been covering a scimitar for all he knew. I don't put much stock in these gate searches. BTW, a couple of weeks ago in CVG we had to disembark from a loaded Delta plane (757) because the FAA wanted to perform a search. I was first in line to reboard and the gate agent was being forced to redo the required number of secondary searches. He started to ask me to do the search but then saw I had seat 5B and said, "Oh your first clas...never mind" and then selected someone else. Truthfully, last Saturday morning's flight was the first time I have seen them select first class passengers on a Delta flight. They nabbed three of the 12 of us on that one.