Thread: The TSA Now Allows You to Carry On Safety Razors and Blades

I am shocked, but its true! This doesnt do anything for me because I just check my straights every week, but if you shave with a safety razor you can now put it in your carry on luggage instead of taking a damn bic or mach 4000 or whatever they are up too now.

You may have been able to sneak these blades on before, but now its perfectly legal: http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtrav...d-items.shtm#4

Sharp Objects

Objects that must be checked:

"Razor-Type Blades - such as box cutters, utility knives, razor blades not in a cartridge, but excluding safety razors."

NOTE: Any sharp objects in checked baggage should be sheathed or securely wrapped to prevent injury to baggage handlers and inspectors.


They specifically state that you still cant carry on meat cleavers...so I guess I still cant bring any of my razors lol

Maybe it's changed since you posted JL, but it says no blades on carry-on.

Dang it.. Now I'll have to buy a DE as well. Fortunately I was gonna go to the flea market anyways.

So properly secured SE's in checked luggage should be alright?

(Traveling last half of this week)

-Scott-

That's always been ok. I'd keep mine in a coffin, wrapped in a piece of paper marked with "sharp sterile object." Ofcourse I'd take the uglies but good performers with me.

Originally Posted by Korndog

Maybe it's changed since you posted JL, but it says no blades on carry-on.

gotta read carefully. Look at this chart provided by them. I highlighted the exception being safety razor blades. All other blades can be in checked baggage only, safety blades can be packed in carry on luggage.

The TSA definition of safety razor, unfortunately, does not include DE's. The vast consensus is that your chances at the security line are random, at best. I suggest that trying to explain to a TSA agent determined to take your blades that your DE blade is for a safety razor is a lost cause.

Check your blades, or pack some Bic's. I like the Metals.

Originally Posted by ScottS

The TSA definition of safety razor, unfortunately, does not include DE's. The vast consensus is that your chances at the security line are random, at best. I suggest that trying to explain to a TSA agent determined to take your blades that your DE blade is for a safety razor is a lost cause.

Check your blades, or pack some Bic's. I like the Metals.

I only use straights on the road and at home. Out of curiousity though, where did you get the information of what the TSA does and does not consider a safety razor blade?

Originally Posted by JLStorm

I only use straights on the road and at home. Out of curiousity though, where did you get the information of what the TSA does and does not consider a safety razor blade?

Let's just call it the working practical definition, based on the fifty or so responses I've read on similar threads in a variety of wetshaving forums. At least half those who try to bring blades through-- even blades in a DE razor-- lose them.

I know people who get clearly permissable items, specifically listed as such, confiscated, such as fishing gear. Don't get me started on TSA policy. There's little consistency between agents and sites, and IMO, little safety offered by current standards, incompetence all over the place (for example, last week's nabbing of a gun, but failure to figure out who was carrying it!!!)-- all in all, a tremendously ill-reasoned overresponse to situations that can be almost entirely avoided by keeping the cockpit doors locked when a terrorist knocks.

Originally Posted by ScottS

Let's just call it the working practical definition, based on the fifty or so responses I've read on similar threads in a variety of wetshaving forums. At least half those who try to bring blades through-- even blades in a DE razor-- lose them.

I know people who get clearly permissable items, specifically listed as such, confiscated, such as fishing gear. Don't get me started on TSA policy. There's little consistency between agents and sites, and IMO, little safety offered by current standards, incompetence all over the place (for example, last week's nabbing of a gun, but failure to figure out who was carrying it!!!)-- all in all, a tremendously ill-reasoned overresponse to situations that can be almost entirely avoided by keeping the cockpit doors locked when a terrorist knocks.

or just letting everony bring guns aboard ...like that will ever happen...