TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes

yali writes "The U.S. Transportation and Security Administration has issued new rules limiting travel with lithium batteries. As of January 1, no spare lithium batteries are allowed in checked luggage. Batteries carried in the cabin are subject to limitations on per-battery and total lithium content, and spare batteries must have the terminals covered. If you're returning home from the holidays with new toys, be sure to check out the new restrictions before you pack."

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No, not against zombies or rambo, but...

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..if you're talking about trying to stop (and/or discourage to the point of retreat) your basic home robber, being shot with anything that does more than sting is likely to do it. If you're trying to hole up against the Guh-mint, you're probably going to need more than this. Otherwise, this should do fine and has the benefit of not going through your walls and killing your (or your neighbor's) children.

If I were inclined to have a ready weapon for home defense (and I'm not), my choice would a pump action shotgun -- probably 12 gage but possibly smaller -- loaded with the closest thing to a stable, non-lethal round I could find. Rock salt is rather appealing to me in that regard.

I am also a firmly believe that the overwhelming majority of common thugs is likely to find somewhere else to be very quickly at just the sound of a shell being jacked into place in a pump action shotgun.

I don't choose to have a home defense weapon at the ready simply because I have enough experience with firearms to know that at 3am, without planning or time to aim the combination of muddled thinking, fear, and surprise it is much more likely to result in the injury of someone I do not want being shot rather than someone I do.

In answer to the questions for both sides of this endless debate:

1. Yes, I am a gun owner. I own a very cheap .22 rifle which I've used to rid my wife's garden of woodchuckery. It lives in my office with a cable lock threaded from the breach through the barrel such that it is impossible to load or fire.

2. Yes, I am (or was 20 years ago) proficient with handguns, shutguns, and rifles. I did at one time have some recognition in the various aspects of target sports.

3. No, I do not believe "The Right to Bear Arms" by nature must be extended to either automatic weapons or tactical nuclear warheads or be considered meaningless any more than I believe only white men who own land should be allowed to vote.