The Transportation Security Administration says that within the first nine months of 2021, it confiscated a record number of firearms from passengers at security checkpoints making their way to board U.S. flights.
TSA officers at roughly 248 airports nationwide discovered and seized 4,495 firearms from passengers by Oct. 3, marking a 20-year high, according to the statement from the agency. This is an increase from 2019 when TSA confiscated 4,432 firearms, 87% of which were either fully or partially loaded.
“The number of firearms that our TSA officers are stopping at airport checkpoints is alarming,” David Pekoske, an administrator with the TSA, said in the statement, adding that “firearms, particularly loaded firearms” have no place in the passenger cabin of airlines, let alone the fact that they pose an “unnecessary risk at checkpoints.”
Officers from the agency discovered 11 firearms in passenger carry-on bags per million passengers screened so far this year.
Read more at Washington Examiner.
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