TSA Confiscated Nearly 4,000 Guns At American Airports

By Tom Knighton

Every year, the TSA reports on the number and variety of things they confiscate at U.S. airports each year. This includes firearms because, amazingly enough, some people don’t get that they won’t let you take a firearm into the secure portions of an airport. After all, the TSA gets squeamish about people taking an open bottle of water on a plane. Why would they allow a firearm on board?

However, it seems that almost 4,000 people didn’t get the memo last year.

There was a realistic-looking replica of a suicide vest found in a checked bag at an airport in El Paso. A block of inert explosives was discovered in a carry-on bag at an airport in Florida. Hand grenades were confiscated from luggage at airports all over the country.

These, along with 3,957 firearms, were among the items discovered agents with the Transportation Security Administration discovered at airport security checkpoints in 2017.

In its “TSA Year in Review” report, the agency said a “record-setting” number of firearms were found in carry-on bags. With nearly 4,000 firearms for the year, that translates to about 10 firearms a day.

That’s up roughly 17 percent from 2016, when 3,391 firearms were found at checkpoints, TSA …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms