Just in time for the holiday travel season

Jesus. You see the video? I don't think I'd want to hold that thing (hair dryer/coin and red bull can gun) while it goes off. Looked almost as dangerous to the user as the target.

I'm kinda thinking it would just blow their hands and maybe their dick off. Bet you they'd live. They could give them a cell right next to that underwear bomber guy who scorched his junk. Those 72 virgins wouldn't do them much good without junk (unless that somehow gets magically re-attached in paradise).

Can't really see Jihadists using this thing. It's destructive, but it's a one shot deal, there's a pretty substantial delay when it's triggered and it's not destructive enough to take out a plane even if the cabin was pressurized.

I can see them becoming more restrictive. Especially considering that they're arming some of them and giving the TSA the powers to arrest.

Good point.

If prison inmates can make weapons in a max security prison then they're not going to have an issue making them in an airport with with way more resources. Shanks can be made out of any sort of plastic (toothbrushes, hair brushes, Saran Wrap, coffee lids etc), scrap metal (decorative trim, scored out of a sheet metal with the file on fingernail clippers, clothes hangers), a sharpened wooden stake or an improvised club/flail made out of a lock or other heavy object in a sock.

Hijackers who belong to an organization will probably just do what they've always done though. One of their members will just get a job as a baggage handler or some other job and they'll plant the weapons on the other side of security check point. That's how most fundamentalist Islamic hijackers got their weapons in Europe, N. Africa and the Middle East during such incidents in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

Plus even though the security is much better than it was in the past, reporters and security experts who test the systems in place are still able to get weapons on board without much issue.

Lethal weapons smuggled on British plane (*Click*)