TSA Confiscates A Record Number of Firearms in the Past Year!

TSA Confiscates A Record Number of Firearms in the Past Year!

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A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer directs a traveler to step through a metal detector at a security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Linthicum, 

The Transportation Security Administration has confiscated 1,855 firearms so far this year from travelers at airports. That is already more than was confiscated in all of 2013, and there is still a month and a half to go until 2014 ends.

79% of the confiscated firearms were loaded.“This is an example of the good work the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security perform on behalf of the American people,” Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said in a statement.

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The agency shares many of the dangerous or just weird things it confiscates from travelers on its Instagram account.

• Dallas/Fort Worth International (104)
• Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (90)
• Phoenix Sky Harbor International (66),
• Houston George Bush Intercontinental (62)
• Denver International (61)

[pullquote style=”left” quote=”dark”]A disturbing range of firearms have been confiscated, in addition to a replica Roman dagger, a Samurai sword and a replica of a land mine.[/pullquote]
 

According to the TSA blog.Travelers are able to check firearms, but the unloaded firearm must be stored in a hard container, and declared at the ticket counter. The TSA has a PDF guide for anyone who plans to travel with a gun.