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TSA found 3,257 firearms in carry-on bags in 2020

01/26/21

Travel was way down in 2020. But that didn’t stop those who were getting on airplanes from having firearms in their carry-on bags. In a report released today, TSA says its officers found 3,257 firearms on passengers or in their carry-on bags at checkpoints. Of those firearms caught, about 83 percent were loaded. In 2019, →

How many firearms did TSA find at airport checkpoints in 2019?

01/15/20

It’s a number we anxiously wait for each year. And it’s a number that sadly keeps going up. In its annual Year in Review, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today shared the tally of the number of firearms its officers found at airport checkpoints around the country all last year. The total: an alarming and →

TSA takes on Star Wars, pups and checkpoint firearms.

08/28/19

Today’s tidbits come from some of the social media notices shared by the folks at Transportation Security Administration (TSA). First: On its @askTSA site, TSA is answering questions from Star Wars fans heading to a Disney park to visit the Galaxy’s Edge attraction. People are curious about how TSA will deal wtih some of the →

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165 guns found at airport checkpoints in 2 weeks. What??

10/12/17

Over the past two weeks TSAS officers found 165 (!) firearms at airport checkpoints. What's going on? →

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Another record number of firearms found at airport checkpoints

08/21/16

Yet another record was set last week for the number of firearms found at airport checkpoints: 81! →

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