I remember one school-sponsored camping trip when I was in high school where some enterprising friends of mine decided to smuggle in waterguns (prohibited for some unknown reason). To do this, the opened up a portable stereo they were taking (I know, not exactly roughing it), and took out some of the non-essential stuff. Then they put the guns in. Fit right in, no problems. These are gun shaped and gun sized things! Makes you wonder how much you could get away with.
I remember one school-sponsored camping trip when I was in high school where some enterprising friends of mine decided to smuggle in waterguns (prohibited for some unknown reason). To do this, the opened up a portable stereo they were taking (I know, not exactly roughing it), and took out some of the non-essential stuff. Then they put the guns in. Fit right in, no problems. These are gun shaped and gun sized things! Makes you wonder how much you could get away with.
I remember one school-sponsored camping trip when I was in high school where some enterprising friends of mine decided to smuggle in waterguns (prohibited for some unknown reason). To do this, the opened up a portable stereo they were taking (I know, not exactly roughing it), and took out some of the non-essential stuff. Then they put the guns in. Fit right in, no problems. These are gun shaped and gun sized things! Makes you wonder how much you could get away with.
Call me overly cautious, but I’d just as soon NO knives made it into the cabin. A three inch blade can make a three inch gash.
Just how thick is your neck?
Put 'em in checked baggage and don’t worry about it. 
A few years ago, I was flying out of Frankfurt with a bunch of colleagues. Naturally, we all had laptop computers. The security people had a scale, and you had to take your laptop out of the case and weigh it. They had a big book listing the weights of all standard commercially-available laptop computers (at least, I assume that’s what was in it; they didn’t let me see it).
If they did that with video cameras, your idea wouldn’t work. Of course, if the God knows what that you filled it with was the same weight as the camera’s original guts, then …
Disclaimer: Don’t ANYONE try ANY of this, please!
Never attribute to malice anything that can be attributed to stupidity.
– Unknown
I also always travel with one of those big mofo Swiss Army knives (the one with the corkscrew and the saw and the fish descaler and everything). It’s usually in my briefcase, which goes through the X-ray.
Ironically, the only time security ever asked me anything about it was in Geneva. They were cool (after all, it is a Swiss army knife), but they looked it over just the same.
Never attribute to malice anything that can be attributed to stupidity.
– Unknown
Here is a not nearly related story:
One time I was flying from New York to Chicago to help at a martial arts seminar. Not sure what they saw but they asked to search my bag. Inside amongst other things they found my black belt to which the security officer said “I am sorry, sir, I cannot allow you to board the plane with your hands and feet.”
What more could you expect from somebody who lets people kick him to the head?
Forgot that darned smiley face. He was, of course, just kidding, although I have to admit he said it with such a straight face he had me wondering for a second.