almost didn't make it home!

Fortunately the lady that sold it to me, at the Golden Gate, warned me how to deal with it at the airport! It was around 2002-2003-ish when I bought it...they were still working out details on airport security. The lady told me that one or two people told her that they had their keychain guns confiscated out of their carry-on luggage. On her advice I placed it (unwrapped and fully visible) in the bin that goes through the x-ray...and I alerted the agent that it was a souvenir/toy/keychain, so no one was startled when they saw it on the x-ray...and the agent still took it and showed it to 2-3 other agents before deciding that it was ok, then she returned it to me.