Pack Up Trouble in Your Old Kit Bag

By this time, most travelers know that they shouldn’t bring concealed metal nail files, nose hair scissors or forks onto airplanes. But that’s just the beginning. The following list of prohibited items was posted at the airport in Amman, Jordan, based on recommendations of the U.S. Transportation Security Agency:

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Ammunition

Automatic weapons

Axes

Baseball bats

BB guns

Billy clubs

Blackjacks

Blasting caps

Bows and arrows

Box cutters

Brass knuckles

Bullwhips

Cattle prods

Compressed air guns

Corkscrews

Cricket bats

Crowbars

Disabling gases or chemicals

Dynamite

Fire extinguishers (except authorized by local fire codes)

Flare pistols

Golf clubs

Gun lighters

Hammers

Hand grenades

Hatchets

Hockey sticks

Ice ax/ice pick

Knives (including religious and hunting ... any length) except rounded blade butter knives and plastic cutlery

Kubatons

Mace

Martial arts devices

Meat cleavers

Nun chucks

Pellet guns

Pepper spray

Pistols

Plastic explosives

Pool cues

Power drills (portable)

Power saws (portable)

Razor blades (not in a cartridge)

Replica weapons

Revolvers

Rifles

Road flares

Sabers

Scissors (metal with pointed tip)

Screwdrivers

Shotguns

Ski poles

Spear guns

Starter pistols

Straight razors

Stun guns/shocking devices

Swords

Tear gas

Throwing stars

Tools, large or heavy like wrenches or pliers)

Toy transformer robots (which form a toy gun)

Toy weapons

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Compiled by a Times staff member.