for example by the way, the only people that can carry armed are federal agents. when i was with the dea, you travel armed. he had active military i.d. would that have not enough. for example, if you say you go from new york city or a local airport here or elsewhere. when you check your weapon in, you have two layers of screening. you have the port authority police department. they look at the weapon, see whether you re licensed to have the weapon and then you go through the usual tsa screening. in other airports, there s no police involvement. tsa does it. they don t verify whether you have a legal firearm. so for example, if you re traveling in a different airport without that police involvement, all you do is say to the ticket agent, you re carrying a weapon armed. they examine it. make sure it s unloaded. sign off on it, put it in your suitcase and bring it to tsa. tsa s sole focus is to make sure it s not loaded. the weapon and ammunition, you can carry them in the same