Prohibited items in 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
• Workmen's tools — 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
• Pizza cutters
• Knitting needles

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