What can you bring in your hand luggage?

Devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury by discharging a projectile, including:

• Firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns

• Toy guns, replicas and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons

• Component parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sights

• Compressed air and CO2 guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns

• Signal flare pistols and starter pistols

• Bows, crossbows and arrows

• Harpoon guns and spear guns

• Slingshots

Devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise, including:

• Devices meant for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons

• Animal stunners and animal killers

• Disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such as mace, pepper sprays, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays

Objects with a sharp point or sharp edge capable of being used to cause serious injury, including:

• Items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets and cleavers

• Ice axes and ice picks

• Razor blades

• Box cutters

• Knives with blades that are longer than 6 cm

• Scissors with blades that are longer than 6 cm, measured from the fulcrum

• Martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge

• Swords and sabres

• Pizza cutters

• Knitting needles

Tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

• Crowbars

• Drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills

• Tools with a blade or a shaft that's longer than 6 cm, capable of being used as a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels

• Saws, including cordless portable power saws

• Blowtorches

• Bolt guns and nail guns

Objects capable of being used to cause serious injury when used to hit, including:

• Baseball and softball bats

• Clubs and batons, such as billy clubs, blackjacks and nightsticks

• Martial arts equipment

Explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:

• Ammunition

• Blasting caps

• Detonators and fuses

• Replica or imitation explosive devices

• Mines, grenades and other explosive military stores

• Fireworks and other pyrotechnics

• Smoke generating canisters and smoke generating cartridges

• Dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives