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I’ve heard traveling with a flare gun checked in your luggage allows for standard lock usage, which will require you be present for bag searches (at lease domestically, US). Not what you are asking for but a cleaver ‘hack’ non the less.

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First heard about this at DEFCON at a great presentation titled: Packing and the Friendly Skies. [0]

He makes a great case for keeping your laptop with your gun as the only way to guarantee its physical security.

[0] https://youtu.be/KfqtYfaILHw

I feel like this would go poorly in Europe

Actually, provided you are legally temporarily importing your weapon for something like a sporting event, this happens all the time in (some countries) in Europe.[0][1]

[0] https://www.lufthansa.com/ba/en/sports-baggage [1] https://www.pewpewtactical.com/international-travel-firearms...

You can travel with guns in much of Europe just fine. Also, you can lock with whatever the hell you want in Europe so the whole point is moot.

> you can lock with whatever the hell you want in Europe

But can't they break it off without you present anyway?

They can but the idea is to protect against opportunistic theft by luggage handlers. A broken lock also makes your insurance claim a lot easier.

European's attitude toward basic second amendment rights is weird.

The Royal Family having full gun rooms is ok and a tradition but the blebs even having access to a basic weapon is “problematic”.

European attitude towards guns differs a lot by country. In Czechia for example getting a license is straightforward and lots of people have small firearms. They just don’t fetishize it and brandish it at every opportunity.

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