[Crash_00]

Slap Chameleon Coating on it and disguise it as air? As for MAD scanners, that's what the hacker is for.
"What do you mean I can't come in, its a plastic toy for the costume party on the fifth floor. Wouldn't your scanner be screaming if this were really a Panther Cannon?"

I'll have to agree though that you're better off just sticking with a smaller weapon.

[CanRay]

I hear Streetline Specials are popular this year, and are good accessories with your steampunk outfit!

[Socinus]

I had a character get four assault rifles past security by putting them inside a cake (no shit). The cake was decorated with metal designs and metal leaf to confuse the MAD scanners.

I've also dismantled weapons. Dismantling them makes them much easier to hide. Gun parts are also a lot easier to disguise as something OTHER than gun parts because people dont always recognize them AS gun parts. The biggest job I did was moving an entire case of guns and I just dismantled them. The triggers were the only parts that could be tagged immediately as being a part of a gun and for that I just lied and said they were mechanical parts. It worked well. You can move lots of weapons this way, especially if you mix the gun parts in with other junk metal and you pass the entire lot off as "scrap" or other misc machine parts.

Spare tires are another good place. Slash a tire open inside the tread and open it up. Smaller weapons can be hidden inside larger tires and larger weapons can be broken down and hidden inside. They're also great places to hide ammunition because you can hide A LOT of it in a single tire. Just be careful it doesnt rattle.

Hollowed out items are a good way to move smaller weapons.

You could also use machinery. Buy a generator or something similar and gut most of it, load in whatever you want and slap a BROKEN sticker on the machine. I've also had success with opaque liquids, barrels of oil or other chemicals that arent translucent in liquid form can hide LOTS of things wrapped in plastic at the bottom of the barrel and most people are not dedicated enough to stick their arm in a barrel of acid to see if that's really just acid in there.

Labeling something as "movie props" is another good way if you can swing it. That's harder to do and you need some entertainment industry knowledge to do it, but it's carte blanche to move even some seriously illegal stuff under the guise of the movies.

Hazardous material is also your friend. Crates labeled "radioactive waste" that also make geiger counters crackle tend to discourage thorough searches. Rotting meat or other food labeled "fertilizer" tends to get a quick pass.

Look up historical examples of how people smuggled weapons. There are some ingenious ways to get things around.

[KarmaInferno]

Eh, MAD scanners can be defeated pretty easily. A jammer can quickly reduce their detection dice down to where they can't make the threshold needed, especially if you use the anti-MAD shielding from Runner's Companion.

I've use the Chameleon Coating option before where it's likely I'm not gonna get examined too closely. Obviously that won't work if there a checkpoint where people are inspecting folks carefully, but like walking down streets in a crowd it usually suffices.


-k

[Reaver]

A sword could be hidden lots of ways..

Umbrella handle/cane shaft are two fashionable and plausable items.

Next is sporting eqiupment like Hockey sticks, baseball bats, and the like.


As for a full on Assault rifle?

Maybe a guitar case ( for that "El Maricachi" feel) or similiar item.

If you change out your AR for a carbine, you might get it down to a briefcase size (folding stock, no barrel mounts, short barrel mod), and still be rapidly deployable. Of course, an Assault Rifle is not meant to be hidden, it's all about that huge unstated statement: "I have an Assault rifle, what are you going to do about it?" 

If you are looking at trying to be sneaky, think SMG for a punch. Much easier to hide, burst fire, high ammo count...

[Kontact]

Easy breakdown is the best method for fooling cyberware scanners, but you've still got to slip the bullets past.  That's always been the hangup for me.

I guess a false-bottom attache with 2 pts of wifi-negation should keep all the bits and pieces off the radar.

[Xzylvador]

I was reading spy games, seems that you can disguise things at an extra cost in various ways, any ideas on what you would make a sword or an AR look like to be perceived as something else?

In Arsenal there are rules for disguising equipment, cost there is x2 up to x6 for a -2 to a -6 perception modifier for the person checking your gear. Quite expensive if you ask me, but that combined with easy breakdown should manage to fool guards.

[CanRay]

Easy breakdown is the best method for fooling cyberware scanners, but you've still got to slip the bullets past.  That's always been the hangup for me.

Vaccu-sealed Foil.  Don't trust plastic, it's not a environmental barrier.  It'll work on the mid-level sniffers, but not the high end ones.

You know, the ones that are attached to the Cyberdogs with the Tungsten Teeth, Ceramic Bone Lacing, and Muscle Replacement?

[Kontact]

cyberware scanner still only needs 2 hits to identify any item.

[KarmaInferno]

Yeah, the major method to get past a cyberware scanner seems to be "don't get scanned".



-k

[CanRay]

Bring the materials in a method that doesn't get a cyberware or MAD scanner.  As in, something in metal containers that comes in every day (Or at least every week) and only gets a cursory checkover.

[Mason]

Kill the people who are doing the check in their homes beforehand, then go to where you wanted to go. They have to run out of personnel sometime....

[CanRay]

Kill the people who are doing the check in their homes beforehand, then go to where you wanted to go. They have to run out of personnel sometime....

*Checks the colour of your mohawk*

[Mason]

Blood red.

[CanRay]

Faded a bit.  It's kind of light red right now.