the "escort" seems to be more of an airport policy there because no escort was mentioned at the other two airports. i told him to go ahead if he needed to, but i pointed out the lady he needed to blame for violating his policy. he chewed her out and just moaned under his breath about people carrying guns. out of the 5 or so TSA people searcing bags at each airport, there was at least one who was just appalled by the thought of someone having a firearm in their luggage, and that was usually the person collecting the bags, not searching them. the other screeners, or the ones who actually did the baggage inspections, showed very little concern. DFW airport gave me the very least hassle seeing it as a relatively minor issue. the initial screener who took my luggage kind of treated me a little crappier than everyone else, but it seemed more like i was burdening him with the fact that i had something they were going to have to look for; however, they didn't even open the cases that the guns were in. every other airport had to inspect the actual guns. the guns were in a locked suitcase, in locked plastic containers, with gun locks through the barrels. the ammo was in boxes as you would purchase them in inside the suitcase with the guns.
overall, i don't see any correlation of TSA employees giving me crap about it, moreso than i think some employees of TSA happen to personally be very anti-gun and don't mind incorporating that into their work. throughout this whole ordeal, i didn't present my CHL to a single person.
