So says the LA Times, a newspaper long notorious for inaccuracy and bias. They say TSA will allow blades under 2.6 inches. Figures. Couldn’t be an even two or two-and-a-half inches. Nah, got to make it hard to measure. Typical government operation.
Well one of my pocket knives (I usually carry one or the other for whatever I might need a tool for) has a two-inch blade, the other has 2.5. Right. I can see those hamburger-flippers measuring blades and confiscating the knives they say don’t make the, uh, cut.
More federal circus security with a new basis for argument and possible arrest. Jerks. I might risk losing the smaller, cheaper one. But definitely not the other, a gift from the NRA for renewing my membership. Best to just leave them at home. Even better not to fly at all.
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: Delta pilots and Stewardi are opposed. They say it will slow down the security checks. It will that. Government fixes never are.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
“Even better not to fly at all.”
Truer words are rarely heard.
Admittedly not very practical sometimes but most of the time it works.
Debra Burlingame says that the pocket knives were hard to detect, so if they’re eliminated from the list, TSA’s score goes up.
Ha! That figures. Now watch them screw it up by taking more time measuring blades.