How to Travel with Paintball Gear

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Hello this is Rob Rubin and you're watching Expert Village. Hey, I've got my suitcase out and that's not because I'm going on vacation, I just want to show you something, that is traveling with your paintball gear. This show is current with 2007 and if it is a lot later than that then you might want to check the rules again but under current rules the TSA it does not require that these be held up to the same standards as firearms. Paintball markers can be traveled with without a hard case, without a marking case. You can literally throw it in your normal clothing suitcase and you are good to go but do so intelligently. What I recommend that you do is do not travel with this looking like a paintball marker. Take the barrel off of the front of it, stow the barrel separately, take the hopper off of it and stow the hopper separately and just pack it in your luggage. When you are traveling with your goggles you have got to be extra cautious and you don't want anything to scratch it so put your goggles in a goggle bag and if you are really paranoid about it take your arm pads and your elbow pads and stuff them on the inside and stuff some T-shirts on the outside of the lens so that the lens is protected and then just put it in your suitcase. Now for the big one, air tanks. Yes it is legal to fly with an air tank in the United States under current TSA rules but you have to do one thing to your air tank and that is to make them safe by being able to remove the valve. The valve on some air tanks should come right off like this. The reason is they want to inspect the inside of the air tank to make sure you are not carrying anything in there. Also with the valve off of it there is no pressure so there is no danger in flying with this. You can actually buy air tanks that have removable valves or if you know of a qualified air smith you can have a qualified air smith remove the valve from your tank. If you don't know what you're doing, do not remove the air valve from your tank. Don't do it. There are some air tanks that you cannot remove the air valve from at all. If you have any doubts, don't do it yourself seek a qualified air smith. Since I am thinking about it, if you take the regulator off of your air tank too many times and put it back on you can actually compromise the threads inside your regular or the threads inside your air tank so don't do this too often. When you are flying with an air tank you can either take it with you as carry on or you can check it into your luggage. If you check it into your luggage what I recommend that you do is you declare at the gate that you have paintball equipment in your luggage and tell them that there is an air tank with the regulator removed at the check in counter. You don't have to do this, at least that is what the law says but it is a lot easier on you and a lot smoother for you if you just tell them up front hey, I've got paintball gear in there but don't use the G word, never use the G word and by that I mean gun, that tends to make TSA people very very paranoid.

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