Miscellany: CountyComm Embassy Pen review - The Really Non-Tactical Tactical Pen

For years, my CRKT Williams Tactical Pen passed through airport security without any issue, but nowadays TSA agents know all about these so-called "tactical pens" and won't let them through. Before I caught on to the tightening security, I had to leave several fine pens behind, including the aforementioned Williams Pen and a Tuff Writer ballpoint that the company doesn't even make any more.

I've pivoted to carrying good solid pens, like the Embassy Pen from CountyComm, with no "tactical" features whatsoever.  It's just a pen - there's no glass breaker, no "DNA catcher," nothing about it that could even be remotely construed as a weapon. You unscrew the cap and you can write with it. That's it:

Still, the Embassy Pen is a very solid hunk of metal (mine is the discontinued 2-ounce titanium version, an ideal balance between strength and weight), and it would serve about as well as an improvised weapon as anything else...just don't call it "tactical."