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It’s been a while since we took a look at the count of guns and other dangerous items travelers try to take through airport security checkpoints. For the record, firearms, grenades and a long list of other dangerous – or dangerous-looking items – aren’t permitted airside in airports. Yet each week passengers do show up […]

During 2018, TSA officers found a record-breaking number of guns in carry-on bags at airport checkpoints.

Frazzled and forgetful passengers left more than a half million dollars in spare change in the plastic bowls and bins at airport security checkpoints last year. That’s about $45,000 more than the amount left behind in 2011, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). What happens to all that money? TSA makes “every effort to […]

It’s been a while since we took a look at the count of guns and other dangerous items travelers try to take through airport security checkpoints. For the record, firearms, grenades and a long list of other dangerous – or dangerous-looking items – aren’t permitted airside in airports. Yet each week passengers do show up […]

During 2018, TSA officers found a record-breaking number of guns in carry-on bags at airport checkpoints.

Frazzled and forgetful passengers left more than a half million dollars in spare change in the plastic bowls and bins at airport security checkpoints last year. That’s about $45,000 more than the amount left behind in 2011, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). What happens to all that money? TSA makes “every effort to […]

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