So to calm my nerves Ive decided to tell you all a little story and pose some questions at the end.
The timeline of this story is from mid december to mid january.
Before I begin, have you seen spiderman 2? The scene where spiderman loses his powers and goes to the doctor? He says something along the lines of
"In a dream im spiderman, and im losing my powers... actually it was a friends dream..."
keeping that in mind...
My friend...Bart... had a dream:
Bart is the type of person that has a system, he knows the location of every item that is his property. He prides himself with precision and attention to detail.
As they say in the Air Force, Excellence in all we do.
It was a December morning when all packed up, he and his gf went to Hobby airport (HOU) to catch their flight. They each had one checkin and one carryon (backpacks).
W...err.. THEY had arrived really early at the airport so security was a breeze. The flight was to La Guardia (LGA), where they then took a shuttle to Newark(EWR) for their next flight (for those wondering, it was significantly cheaper this way... for them that is).
So once they arrived at EWR, they checked in, went through security AGAIN and finally made it to the gate. Same as before one checkin luggage each and one carry on.
They flew from EWR to Fumicino (FCO) the main airport near Rome, Italy. Once there Barts family came to pick them up and took them home.
Fast forward to newyears eve, the opportunity to go to London for one day presents itself to Bart and his Gf.
Barts father works for an airline company and would be the pilot on their flight to London.
They both pack up their backpacks with the essentials for one day and on new years afternoon they go to FCO, go through security and land in Heathrow Airport(LHR).
They spend Jan 2nd in London trying to cram as much into one day as they can.
The next day they went to LHR, Barts father went with the crew through the crews security while Bart and his gf went through the regular checkin and stood in line for security as all us regular people do. Security was long and they were getting worried they might miss their flight.
"Will your dad take off without us?" Barts gf asked
So its finally their turn to go through and like theyve done 3 time before that time, backpack went in the xray and they went through the metal detector.
Only this time Barts backpack wasnt returned to him. He thought "great a RANDOM search, for the people whos flight leaves in 15 min"
Since his was not the only bag that was pulled, he had to wait for security to go through the bags before his.
Bart tells his gf to go ahead and get on the plane, that way she can explain to his father what the wait is.
Once they get to his backpack, the security lady goes through his backpack and says Barts good to go...
However the xray lady said NO!!! Thats the one we called our supervisor for... WTH??!
Barts backpack goes through the xray again and searched one more time...
"its in here somewhere..." the security lady says.
Bart curious asks what they were looking for, and chuckled when he was told. "There is no way" he thought.
Until finally the lady looks through the pen holder section, she proceeds to pull out a .223 very LIVE round.
Barts jaw drops in disbelief.... or so he says...
His face was red, he eyes were wide open...
A memory flashed in his mind when he took his friend shooting back in august. Bart let his friend use the backpack he decided to bring on this trip because his friend did not have a gun bag.
As the security lady hands over the round to her superior, Barts only thoughts are on whats written in his passport. "If you are arrested, demand to see the U.S. Consul."
The supervisors and the security lady talk and Bart over hears the frase "I think its a dummy", then the supervisor turns to Bart and says "Sir you cannot bring this on board"
Bart simply says "Please dispose of it for me."
The Security supervisor nods and walks off.
Bart then gets the ok to go to his flight... on the furthest gate in the airport of course...
As he runs and makes it just in time, he sits down next to his gf and says "you were right! From now on, guns and ammo go in gun bags, and they will go NOWHERE else"
So thats Barts Never again story.
I hope you can all learn from it... I know I did...
But heres a question... three security check points and only one caught the round. Makes you wonder what else gets through, doesnt it?
and had to say sorry and offer apologies and the blade was disposed. It was in his wallet for many years and passed countless time in flight checks.
The lesson is don't go places me and my guns aren't welcome. 
