Gallery: 10 Guns, Bombs, and Weapons You Can Build at the Airport
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Independent security researcher [Evan Booth](http://www.evanbooth.com/) wondered if it was possible for terrorists to craft deadly weapons using only items for sale at the duty free shops and newsstands beyond the TSA checkpoints. The short answer? Yes. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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He designed a fully functional, breech loading shotgun with Axe body spray, Red Bull cans, and nine volt batteries. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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Over the past nine months, Booth has shared four reports detailing his destructive designs with the TSA prior to posting the videos online, but has received little feedback from the agency regarding fixes to the gaping holes in security. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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"Maybe my expectations are too high, but I don't think it should be that easy to build an explosive device out of items purchased in an airport," says Booth. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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This quirky quartermaster has cracked coconuts using nunchucks made from dental floss, copies of *US Weekly*, and souvenir magnets purchased at Hudson News. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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Booth believes the most interesting elements come from regional gift shops, like this Statue of Liberty tchotchke from LaGuardia, which makes excellent spikes and shrapnel. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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The Constitutionally-themed club called *'Murica* looks as much like an editorial cartoon as an implement of destruction. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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Booth's devices are refined in a terrifying process of trial and error to maximize their ability to injure passengers, breach the cockpit, or destroy the plane. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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After watching the videos, it's all too easy to imagine a ne'er-do-well assembling these weapons in the loo at 30,000 feet. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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A hair dryer, umbrella, and braided rope made from condoms became a makeshift dart gun. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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Family restrooms at the airport are ideal workshops for terrorists to tinker in since they offer a private space equipped with a full size sink, power supply, and a handy workbench in the form of an infant changing table. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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No special tools are required—all of these implements were crafted with an innocuous, TSA approved multi-tool. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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"It feels a bit like the net effect of my work thus far has been a violent, fiery step backwards," says Booth. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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This spike was made by melting a souvenir spoon with an ignited can or aerosols into a mold made from a Red Bull can. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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Taken separately, none of the components are that dangerous, but when laid in series trained eyes can spot the beginnings of a bomb. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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A suitcase filled with travel-size aerosol cans, wooden stirring sticks from Starbucks, and toilet paper snatched from the men's room becomes a surprisingly effective improvised explosive device. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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Amazingly, Booth has suffered almost no injuries as a result of his experimention, aside from the occasionally cutting his fingers opening RedBull cans. He has not been placed on the "No Fly List," yet. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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In less than eight minutes, Booth was able to turn this coffee tumbler into a fragmentary grenade. *Photo: Evan Booth*
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