The rules are interpreted differently everywhere you go. I've had my gun case come around on the belt on almost every international shooting trip I ever went on. But both times on my recent Arizona trip I had to go to the baggage office to get it.
The best one was coming back from Northern Ireland a couple years ago. It actually didn't come around on the belt when I got back into the US. I went to the baggage office and they didn't know where it was either. I walked back to check the belt again and happened to notice it laying in the floor in front of the oversize luggage counter with not a soul in sight. My duffle bag was half again as long as my breakdown guncase and three times as thick, but it came on the belt just fine.
My other favorite is the time I'd flown into Baltimore for a trip on the Eastern Shore. In those days I just used a big hard sided suitcase that had a combination lock as a guncase. The guy at the counter said that it wasn't technically a guncase and that I couldn't use it for the flight even though I'd obviously flown out there with it on the same airline. I called for a supervisor and the whole deal but nobody would budge. To solve the situation they forced me to buy a guncase from them for $200. It was a lightweight plastic piece of crap that I've never used since though this was over 10 years ago. I continued to use my big suitcase for several years after that with no problems whatsover. Finally the gorillas in luggage managed to rip off the wheels and handles so I moved on to something else.
Crazy.....
Destry
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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