Record Number Of Firearms Found At TSA Security Checkpoints
Airport Safety Systems Impacted By Record High Firearms
By Andrew Bender, Forbes
The air travel safety system in the United States is about to set a dubious record, for the number of firearms discovered in carry-on baggage at airport security checkpoints.
The Transportation Security Administration reports that the previous record for violations was 2,212 for all of 2014. As of August of this year, officers had found 1,898 firearms in 2015 alone. TSA is still collecting data from September, but I counted 207 firearms reported so far on the TSA Blog, bringing the annual total to over 2,100. And we’ve still got another quarter of the year to go.
Way to go, America?!?
Through August, the airports with the most firearms violations this year were Dallas-Ft. Worth and Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson, at 107 and 106 incidents respectively. Houston George Bush Intercontinental came in third with 71 incidents, and Denver, Phoenix, Seattle and Nashville each accounted for between 40 and 49 firearms discovered.
