It’s not overdoing it to say that the Stuck at the Airport safety and security team is a bit obsessed with the topic of firearms at airports. We can’t go down the rabbit hole that is the gun control discussion here. But we do get quite alarmed every time the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) […]
(‘No Guns on Planes’ photo courtesy TSA) Pop quiz: Can you take your gun on a plane in your carry-on bag? The answer is no. But the message isn’t getting through. No matter how many times and in how many ways the Transportation Security Administration crew tries to remind travelers of that fact. In 2023, […]
GUNS AT AIPORTS. Sadly, that’s a thing. Looks like the Transporation Security Administration (TSA) is on its way to breaking yet another record. And it’s not for the number of passengers screened at U.S. airports. Although those numbers are up. This record is likely to be for the number of firearms found at airport security […]
A hat tip to “Three Shots McGee” for sharing a story about what happens in Australia when someone is found with a loaded gun in their carry-on. As he says, having a passenger show up at an airport checkpoint with a loaded gun is an “Aussie airport event that almost never happens.” But the passenger, […]
We’re still missing the corny communications TSA’s Blogger Bob Burns once shared with the public, but Lisa Farbstein and the team on duty now are doing a great job of keeping the public informed with light but serious messages about what can and cannot go through airport security checkpoints. The tweets about the guns and […]
It’s not overdoing it to say that the Stuck at the Airport safety and security team is a bit obsessed with the topic of firearms at airports. We can’t go down the rabbit hole that is the gun control discussion here. But we do get quite alarmed every time the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) […]
(‘No Guns on Planes’ photo courtesy TSA) Pop quiz: Can you take your gun on a plane in your carry-on bag? The answer is no. But the message isn’t getting through. No matter how many times and in how many ways the Transportation Security Administration crew tries to remind travelers of that fact. In 2023, […]
GUNS AT AIPORTS. Sadly, that’s a thing. Looks like the Transporation Security Administration (TSA) is on its way to breaking yet another record. And it’s not for the number of passengers screened at U.S. airports. Although those numbers are up. This record is likely to be for the number of firearms found at airport security […]
A hat tip to “Three Shots McGee” for sharing a story about what happens in Australia when someone is found with a loaded gun in their carry-on. As he says, having a passenger show up at an airport checkpoint with a loaded gun is an “Aussie airport event that almost never happens.” But the passenger, […]
We’re still missing the corny communications TSA’s Blogger Bob Burns once shared with the public, but Lisa Farbstein and the team on duty now are doing a great job of keeping the public informed with light but serious messages about what can and cannot go through airport security checkpoints. The tweets about the guns and […]
