Firearms On Cruise Ships

Air BB or pellet pistols or rifles.

Firearms on cruise ships. Im retired law enforcement and had a similar situation. We have written about the dangerous current set of affairs where some cruise ships are sailing into Somali pirate infested waters where the few security guards had to use fake wooden rifles. Besides belts with solid metal buckles are allowed and can be a potential weapon.

As stated dont take your gun aboard the ship and Mexico will throw you into one of their famous prisons if they find it. More commonly this device and others of similar design have been used to disperse protesters and rioters in crowd control efforts. Dive knives are allowed but must be held by the cruise line until checked out by the owner Norwegian Cruise Lines allows knives with blades shorter than 4 inches.

Youre probably looking at handguns under suits or uniforms with about 20-30 AR-15s in a couple of locked armorys on the bridge and in engineering. Knives are no longer allowed even if under 4 inches. So if you have a pocket knife that you carry everywhere you can actually bring it with you on the cruise.

As a general rule of thumb the easiest way to avoid any legal problems with carrying a firearm on board a vessel does not have a firearm on a vessel. In most cases carrying a gun on a cruise ship is not allowed. I had a friend who ran into this same issue.

We are aware that some law enforcement officials are required to travel with their weapon when traveling domestically. Cruise ships are perfectly safe in my opinion as is Disney but bad things can happen. None of the major cruise lines carry weapons which could also present problems given that they are docking in foreign countries with their own gun control laws.

Update Carnival has revised their policy. If youre flying the airlines have some real specific rules on how guns can be carried aboard planes. A Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile packs a 450kg high explosive warhead has a range in.