What happens if flight is diverted to a firearm restricted airport?

[Ravensview]

Okay, I’ve been reading about all of the flight delays and cancellations and it got me thinking, ( a dangerous concept for me), but what happens if your flight has to divert or land in a country or airport with firearm restrictions, say mechanical issue or whatever, then you get stuck overnight and have to deplane but your flying with firearms? Probably a duh type of answer, but I am still curious.

 

[BigSteve57]

I am reminded of the poor fellow who was diverted to New Jersey. The case is REVELL et al v. PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY. REF: https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20100322054

REF: https://www.uslawshield.com/flight-diverted-security-alerted/

1. "The Safe Passage provisions of federal law do not offer you any protection from the state’s prosecution in this situation; your travel did not end in a state where it was legal for you to possess your firearm."
2. "So, what should you do if your plane is diverted and you are asked to retrieve your luggage containing a firearm?"
3. "DO NOT take possession of your luggage!"

 

[Hogpatrol]

^^^^^This^^^^^

Better to lose a firearm than get hung up in another country's or state's legal system.

 

[grand veneur]

A short Story on the subject.

In the nineties, after a hunt in Mongolia, a country for which I had a visa and also a permit for the rifle and the ammo, I couldn't fly back to Germany with a direct flight as planned. After days of waiting, the only option I had was to fly back via a larger detour. That was only possible if I first flew to Beijing, then via Bangkok to Germany.

None of this would have been too much of a problem if transit had been possible in Beijing, which was in this times not the case. I was forced to enter China with a rifle and ammunition, and that without visa and permits.

I went straight to the police at the airport with my luggage and my gun case and explained the officers the situation with great difficulty. It was but all pretty easier than feared. Hardly anyone spoke anything other than Chinese, but the only answer was: no visa, no entry in China ! That was actually clear to me. They then took my passport, gun case and luggage, handed me a document written in Chinese characters and told me to come back in a few hours shortly before departure. In the airport I could move freely with the document.

I was then checked-in between two Chinese police officers who carried my luggage and my gun case and supervised the procedure until they were sure that I would leave the country.

 

[Fixfire]

Good story. I wonder if that would be the case today???

 

[shotgungibbs]

Very interesting post, and follow-ups. I'd be afraid to be the one in grand veneur's position today! Who knows if you'd ever get to depart the country in today's political climate?

 

[WAB]

China is actually pretty pragmatic when you are on the ground there.

 

[igotit]

China don’t play around with their security.

 

[freefall]

This is the reason I have never entered the Ulan Bator Open Golf Tournament.
Well, and the fact that I don't golf.