Nice to allow pilots to have Beretta 92fs blue finish in 40 or 9 too....just in case mind you.

Hockey Sticks ?

Is this a global warming thing ?

Well it´s about time! Any self-respecting man should be ashamed to be caught out without a pocket knife.

If I had my way, I´d get rid of the TSA lock, stock and barrel, then let the airlines and their insurance companies decide how best to provide security on their own planes.

Read the article...everyone. Please.

Take a look at the knife that is pictured...and tell me you think it is a smart idea to allow those on a plane your kids or parents might be flying on.

That knife is one heck of a lot more dangerous than the box cutters the Muslim terrorists used on 9-11-2001.

But heck..the TSA will now have expensive non-sequester uniforms they can wear when they let future terrorists on the planes with such knives.

Golf clubs? Did they even notice what Tiger Woods wife did to him with a 7 iron? /s

Back in the 80´s sometime, I got on a flight with a women´s field hockey team. The sticks made for slightly awkward seating arrangements. It was interesting at least.

I don´t understand their choice. Hey, could we get nail clippers back?

Is a box cutter considered a knife?

Is it possible they are inviting disaster so they can blame the sequester?

Can I bring toothpaste and deodorant now? I guess not.

#4, that knife is longer than their ´2.36 inches long´ allowance. But if everyone may have a knife, that sort of takes away the advantage the 9/11 hijackers had when everyone (except them) was disarmed by the feeble-minded feds.

so i canbring a small box cutter on board, but my 4 oz toothpaste tube is verboten...makes perfect sense

Can the CBO give us figure for the TSA dollars spent per terrorist caught? And please also estimate the dollars cost in citizen´s lost time and stolen valuables at checkin. And, just out of curiosity, the dollars rechanneled to the DNC from TSA SEIU dues.

The knife pictured in the article is three inches. I can see no reason to have any knife, of any length, on an airplane. Mine go into my checked baggage.

for well over 20 years before 9/11 I traveled with tools, pocket knife and a leatherman, the buck knife was occasionally questioned but no one ever took a second look at the leatherman on my belt (with two rather nasty blades) - since then I find I loose something from my checked bag a few times a year

TSA --

"Oh, pocket knife, sir? Not that there´s anything wrong with that... "

Why couldn´t a terrorist just go into the bathroom and crack a mirror and come out with a "weapon?" Aircraft lavatory mirrors are probably shatter-resistant, but that doesn´t mean they are shatterproof.

Very poor reporting from the LA Times. Other articles have reported that the width of the small pocket knife must be less than 1/2" at its widest point. Box cutters are still forbidden, as are knives with molded handles, whatever that means. The knife in the picture with the article is not allowed.

Airlines don´t allow canes to be kept by the seats - they must be in the overheads, and I´m sure the golf clubs would have to be retrieved from there also to take a swing.

Good. A little freedom and sanity has slipped back in to air travel. My every day carry knife is about the same size as the one pictured. And yes #4, I´d feel very safe if everyone on the plane had one.

Thank you, #2. A good question.

So, on April 24th a pocket knife is illegal, but on April 25th its OK...Yep, makes sense to me!

The obvious priorities are cockpit security and screening for explosives. Of these, cockpit security is several orders of magnitude the most important. If the cabin is secured, shooting up the passengers with an AK-47 would, while deplorable, be no different than committing the same massacre on the ground. The same goes for blowing up the plane with all on board.

The essential, imperative thing is to prevent the aircraft from being commandeered and converted into a guided missile. Nothing could be simpler. All that is required is an impenetrable cockpit door and a strictly defined protocol about opening it. 9-11 would not have happened if the hijackers knew in advance they stood no chance of entering the cockpit and taking control of the aircraft.

There would be no sense in going to all the trouble to pay for airline tickets and catching a plane just to massacre Americans in a confined space 30,000 feet above the ground.

I am assuming that current policy is that doors to the cockpit are specially constructed, reinforced, and impenetrable to anything, including small explosives, that might be smuggled aboard an aircraft. I am also assuming that pilots are under strict orders not to unlock the cabin except under very clearly defined and absolutely verified circumstances.