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Reviewing TSA’s weekly gotcha’ list

07/16/12

On most Fridays, TSA’s blogger Bob Burns posts a tally of the number of guns (loaded and unloaded) caught during the prior week at US airport security checkpoints and gives a review of the forbidden, and often truly far-out, items TSA officers find. Last week was no different. According to the TSA blog, last week →

TSA week in review: the pistol-in-the-potted plant

07/02/12

I am always entertained and a bit frightened by the TSA’s weekly round-up of items found at airport checkpoints. I know it’s a bit of a PR effort on the TSA’s part to show off all the wacky ways – and all the bizarre stuff – people put in their carry-on bags, but it works →

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TSA checkpoint finds: swords, knives, guns and one chastity belt

06/09/12

The TSA’s Friday round-up of things found at airport security checkpoints is always mystifying, scary and entertaining. Among the items nabbed between June 1 to June 7, 2012 were: 22 guns (18 of them loaded), swords hidden inside a guitar case and a cane, a multi-tool knife hidden in a thermos, Co2 distraction grenades and →

Airport security: what’s with people?

09/14/09

According this New York Post article, last Friday, on the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Port Authority officials at New York’s La Guardia airport arrested a 40-year old man who was catching a Delta flight to Atlanta while packing a fully loaded 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun in his carry-on bag. Security officials reported →

Planning a vacation? Start by unpacking.

08/14/08

Shifting rules and over-zealous staffers can trip up even the most checkpoint-savvy traveler. (Flip-flops on or off? Is mascara a liquid or a gel?) But it may not be the TSA you have to worry about; watch out for other travelers. So far in 2008, the TSA has discovered 519 guns – many of them →

No guns – for now – at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Int’l Airport

08/12/08

On Monday, a federal judge upheld a gun ban at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. The gun rights group GeorgiaCarry.org is trying to convince the judge that the non-secure parts of the airport are included in a new Georgia law allowing people to carry licensed firearms in state parks, restaurants, and on public transportation. U.S. →

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Guns, grenades and other weapons to leave home

08/11/08

I spent a lot of time chatting with TSA folks last week while working on an article about guns and other prohibited items travelers keep trying to take through airport security checkpoints. To be honest, it gave me nightmares. Especially after a TSA spokesperson sent me a photo of a shipment of snakes discovered at →

Jerry Lewis, guns, and deer

07/30/08

Actor and comedian Jerry Lewis was on his way to Detroit last Friday when he got nabbed at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas for having a gun in his carry-on baggage. Maybe he was really on his way to Flint. According to the Flint Journal, at Flint’s Bishop International Airport recently a “wayward shot” →

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