yep, its the truth. if you lock your bags up with a non tsa lock, they wont load the bags or cut the lock and search it anyways and steal what they want, but yet you put a tsa lock on it, the open it and steal from you. no matter how you try to keep your belongings safe, there is always a way for the thieves to steal from you.
Not true. If you check a gun it must be unloaded and only you have the key or combo. They can'y open it legally and stealing a gun from an airport would be worse than drugs.