TSA; ‘unacceptable’ number of guns at airports

Friday, 21 Feb, 2023 0

 

The TSA is already warning it expects the number of guns at airports to surpass last year’s record haul.

An ‘unacceptable level of firearms are coming to security checkpoints’ a TSA spokesperson said.

It comes after an assault rifle with 163 rounds of ammunition was seized at New Orleans Airport this month.

The agency says this year could beat the 6,542 guns discovered at airport checkpoints in 2022.

Last year 88% of them were loaded with ammo.

Officers in Seattle, Washington DC and Indianapolis have raised concerns about the rate of gun seizures so far this year.

The TSA last year increased the maximum civil penalty for a firearms violation to $14,950.

“What we see in our checkpoints really reflects what we’re seeing in society,” TSA administrator David Pekoske told the AP.

“In society there are more people carrying firearms nowadays.”



 

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