I have to laugh, I'm sorry. It's so easy to misinterpret written words and even my spoken words, with my redneck accent, get mixed up as well.
I would never carry, nor am I suggesting to carry, broadheads in your carry on bags. I just keep reading different versions of the 'law' in Amsterdam, specifically and only related to the airport. To be clear, all of my archery equipment, all of it, go inside my checked bags.
But there seems to be differing opinions on Amsterdam. And when I mention that I'm inquiring about archery equipment in checked bags, someone still tells me "for firearms I need permits, etc."
I was merely trying to determine, from reading the past posts, if a person has archery equipment in their checked luggage, lands at the airport in Amsterdam, their luggage never leaves the care and custody of the airlines, in this case KLM, said person stays inside airport, never goes past customs/TSA/security/etc., never leaves the airport, has a four hour layover, boards the plane, never seeing the checked luggage. Is that permitted and legal? According to KLM, it is permitted, at least according to their website.
As one can come to learn by reading the fore mentioned posts, there are plenty of varying 'opinions' if you will. I was just trying to clarify based on what KLM states to see if someone has had first hand experience with this issue.
With a bow/arrow equipment, NO FIREARMS/AMMUNITION.
After all that I've read, and after tonight, I'd like to just avoid the layover in Amsterdam if at all possible, just in case.