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2016 Postmortem

thesquanderer

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9. And it turns out, Sanders was right, it's just like airplanes

Reply to bullwinkle428 (Reply #8)

Sun Nov 8, 2015, 12:26 PM

Nov 2015

You can't take firearms in carry-on luggage. You can have it in checked luggage on those trains that offer checked luggage (not all of them do)... and (according to what I've seen online) you can't access checked luggage en route. So Maddow actually was wrong about that, and it's a shame BS didn't make that point.

Amtrak's policy:

http://www.amtrak.com/prohibited-items

http://www.amtrak.com/firearms-in-checked-baggage

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