{"id":3537,"date":"2012-02-10T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/02\/10\/back-from-baltimore\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:38","slug":"back-from-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3537","title":{"rendered":"Back From Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the light blogging for the last couple of days. I had to attend a company regional meeting in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

With Maryland’s uber-restrictive carry laws, I knew concealed carry was out. Moreover because I only had carry-on luggage, the next level of protection – a knife – was out as well. Thus, I was restricted to a tactical pen that I thought I could get past the oh so vigilant eyes of TSA.<\/p>\n

I went with one of the new Sharpie stainless steel bodied pens. They are a bit slimmer than their markers but still seem substantial enough without screaming tactical. I have a couple of pens marketed as tactical but wasn’t sure they would get past TSA. I’d rather lose a $4.57 pen to them than one that cost $25 or more.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Sharpie pen actually writes fairly well and is comfortable for writing. Some tactical pens in my opinion are just too heavy for constant use.<\/p>\n

As to TSA, they were actually easier to deal with in Baltimore than in Asheville. In Asheville, I had to go through the screener 3 times stripping off my belt and then my watch before I didn’t set it off. I guess I should be thankful that I wasn’t groped. The one thing that did creep my out a bit was seeing Big Sis Janet Napolitano playing on a video over the “security” check-point in Baltimore. A little bigger screen and it would have been right out of Apple’s 1984 Superbowl ad.<\/p>\n

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