What happens if Dublin Airport confiscate something on arrival

Jamescfc

Hello, I’m on holidays at the moment and am returning to Dublin Airport in a couple weeks. I am aware that you can get away with bring a knife home through the airport through checked in luggage as long as the blade isn’t greater than 6cm in general. I was wondering does anyone actually know for certain what happens if you try to bring in a prohibited item through your checked in luggage for example a knuckle duster or small sword?

not that I am going to.. just wondering.. does it just get confiscated if they find it and you just get a stern talking to or are there any further repercussions? I have heard that in general 100% of checked luggage is x-rayed. Does anyone have any experience here? Thanks

endacl

My luggage is never x rated!!!

otmmyboy2

Mod note - moved to legal discussions, has nothing to do with the Hunting subforum.

Jamescfc

Always one 😂 👍

Victor

The airport itself will have little interest in them. Customs will likely confiscate them as offensive weapons.

dennyk

If it's a prohibited weapon as described in S.I. No. 66/1991 or S.I. No. 338/2009, it will almost certainly be confiscated, and you could potentially face criminal charges, so it would be very unwise to try to import a weapon on that list.

Importation of ordinary knives or swords other than the types specifically listed in those SIs is not generally prohibited, however; you just can't walk around carrying such items in public without a good reason. If they are safely packed in your checked luggage, that shouldn't be an issue; transporting such an item you obtained abroad from the airport to your home would likely be accepted as a good reason for having it in your possession, especially when it's also packed away in a suitcase out of easy reach.

Calahonda52

as the blade isn’t greater than 6cm in general... may not be the case if the security officer deems otherwise

Gatling

There was a recent case involving a registered firearms dealer got himself into serious trouble after bringing parts of firearms in checked luggage through Dublin airport

coylemj

OP only has to worry about the bag being x-rayed at the airport of departure, it's highly unlikely he will encounter any problems in Dublin Airport. And even if they see a long blade, what harm can it do in the hold? I'd say all they're looking for are batteries and things that can go boom!

Arriving passengers and their bags (checked or carry-on) are not scanned at the destination airport. So if the bag gets through the baggage system at the departure airport and onto his plane, he only has to worry about being pulled over in a random check by customs on arrival in Dublin.

coylemj

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121175972#Comment_121175972

Can you explain how he managed to get himself 'into serious trouble'? You can't bring ammunition or fireworks onboard under any circumstances but there is is no prohibition on firearms or gun parts in checked baggage..

Passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles in their hold baggage: explosives and incendiary substances and devices — explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:

• ammunition,
• blasting caps,
• detonators and fuses,
• mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,
• fireworks and other pyrotechnics,
• smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges,
• dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.

https://www.dublinairport.com/at-the-airport/security/checked-baggage

If you are carrying firearms for hunting or sporting purposes please contact your airline for their specific rules and regulations on these.

Aer Lingus rules for the transport of guns are here, scroll down to 'Sports Guns'..

https://www.aerlingus.com/prepare/bags/sports-equipment/

Beefcake82

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121205365#Comment_121205365

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/firearm-dealer-in-court-over-possession-of-component-for-prohibited-submachine-gun-1479660.html

coylemj

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121205402#Comment_121205402

Fair enough. But, in that case, it was the fact that the component was for a prohibited model of firearm that was the issue. The poster I responded to never mentioned this, just that the guy brought 'parts of firearms' in his luggage.