TSA Confiscates Record Number of Guns at Airports

[Remington1911]

My two bits, I question anything and everything this .gov puts out. A little like the 1.1 Million jobs that actually are 10K.

These people lie so often they don't even know the truth anymore.

 

[tarosean]

I don't buy the idea that people would "forget" that they have a gun while boarding a plane.

I would like to know the breakdown between men/women as I'd bet a number were in purses. *Not that they are more forgetfull just that they carry a whole lot of stuff.

I've realized I had my pocket knife on me when exiting my taxi before. So I gave it to my driver as I didnt have checked bagage.

 

[Remington1911]

Anyone remember a few years ago some people moving guns from FL to NY and they had baggage handlers on each end taking care of it. And you really don't want to know the lax policies around food and drink on airplanes.

TSA makes the masses feel safe, nothing else.

 

[Reloadron]

Actually while over 6,000 sounds like a big number consider for 2021 (post COVID) how many passengers have flown to and from the US? How many just domestic? My read is over 667.6 million. Not sure of how many domestic verse to and from US. So somewhere around 00.010% give or take? We had a now deceased radio talk show host here in Cleveland. Ohio who coined the phrase "I'm living in a world I don't understand". I can see his point. How can you show up for a flight with a gun in your carry on and not know it? I don't get it. Anyway when the number of passengers per year is considered the 6,000 to 7,000 is really not a very large number. I got my statistics from here. Calculate in the Darwin offset. You can't fix stupid and you can't save people from themselves.

Then we have the guy who went to NY for I think a wedding. His wife was to fly in after he got there. He called his wife asking her to bring a gun with her. She put it in her checked baggage undeclared, not that it matters. Luggage scanned and she was arrested at New York's LaGuardia airport. Go figure. Maybe he just wanted time away from his wife.

Ron