TSA, travelers with guns, loaded and round chambered

[Yo Mama]

Looking at the TSA on instagram it's both hilarious and scary how many people carry a gun on carry on! Let's assume majority "forgot" they had them.

Reason for this post was to focus on the statistics that the TSA has been providing on how many of these guns were loaded, and separately how many had a round in the chamber. Because I'm a gun stuff interests me!

Week after week consistently the majority of guns probably 90% of them are loaded. However a significantly reduced amount are loaded with a round in the chamber. Usually about 25 to 45% of the guns have a round in the chamber. So statistically with people not knowing that they're carrying a gun into the airport on their check on carry on luggage, much fewer people in the general population tend to carry around in the chamber.

 

[Warp]

Looking at the TSA on instagram it's both hilarious and scary how many people carry a gun on carry on! Let's assume majority "forgot" they had them.

Reason for this post was to focus on the statistics that the TSA has been providing on how many of these guns were loaded, and separately how many had a round in the chamber. Because I'm a gun stuff interests me!

Week after week consistently the majority of guns probably 90% of them are loaded. However a significantly reduced amount are loaded with a round in the chamber. Usually about 25 to 45% of the guns have a round in the chamber. So statistically with people not knowing that they're carrying a gun into the airport on their check on carry on luggage, much fewer people in the general population tend to carry around in the chamber.

Well...it seems that the people "carrying" these guns through security virtually always do so with the gun off-body. As in, the gun is in a bag or piece of luggage or what-not, not on their person.

Generally we we, as gun enthusiasts, or people serious about defense, or regular carriers, talk about "carrying" a gun, we mean on our person, generally in a holster.

I am not surprised that people who put a gun in a bag or backpack or whatever don't usually do so with the chamber loaded.

 

[Ryanxia]

I had to go to the State capital to speak last April, I was very careful to remove my gun and leave it in the vehicle, I even remembered to take out the pocket knife! I get in there and am emptying my pockets to go through the metal detector and that's when I remembered my spare mag!
No issues, I checked it in and picked it up on my way out, but I was making a conscience effort to not be armed and still something slipped by. It happens. To most of us, our EDC gear is just like your shoes or keys, it's just a habit of grabbing it and having it on you. Or even a backup in your bag.

 

[Onward Allusion]

Heh, I wonder how many actually get through.

 

[Drail]

People are generally pretty stupid. If you pack for a trip and don't "know" that there is a loaded gun in your luggage and that your luggage is going to Xrayed and searched - you are clearly an idiot. What amazes me is that almost 80% of the time the TSA runs "tests" on their agents they miss all of the fake guns and bombs. So yes, a lot of stuff is getting through. But they'll make a big deal out of the few times they actually find one. I used to work at the Indianapolis airport and one day they were running a test with a fake bomb and at the end of the day the TSA Idiot in Charge failed to secure the fake bomb and left it laying in one of the plastic bins. Amazingly nobody noticed until the next day when a TSA agent saw it and freaked out thinking it was real. They evacuated the entire airport for 6 hours and thousands of travelers missed their flights - because of their own fake bomb. Idiots. They're not making you safer - just less free.