Record Number of Guns Found at TSA Checkpoints Last Year

[Catskillkid]

86% of them were loaded. The horror!

Record number of guns found at TSA checkpoints last year, 86% of them loaded, agency says.

"That presents a significant health, safety and security concern for us," TSA Administrator David Pekoske told CBS News' transportation correspondent Errol Barnett...."What's causing it? I don't know exactly, but generally I think our weapons carriage detections reflect just more people carrying weapons in the country," he said.

 

[Blimey]

News always tries to paint these like a terrorism was stopped when in reality it is--99%, if not 100% of the time--just somebody who forgot they had their gun on them.

 

[Deplorable Me]

I gotta get me one of them TSA gun collector jobs if the stuff they are finding is any good.

 

[libertysnake]

I gotta get me one of them TSA gun collector jobs if the stuff they are finding stealing is any good.

Fixed that for you.

 

[spat]

86% of them were loaded. The horror!

Record number of guns found at TSA checkpoints last year, 86% of them loaded, agency says.

"That presents a significant health, safety and security concern for us," TSA Administrator David Pekoske told CBS News' transportation correspondent Errol Barnett...."What's causing it? I don't know exactly, but generally I think our weapons carriage detections reflect just more people carrying weapons in the country," he said.

What % do they even catch.

They're about as reliable as a gauze covid mask.

I bet for every one they find there are 5 guys who unpack at their destination and are like "Oh, shit I forgot all about that".

Happens with knives all the time, I can't think guns are any easier to spot.

 

[Saltwater60]

What % do they even catch.

They're about as reliable as a gauze covid mask.

I bet for every one they find there are 5 guys who unpack at their destination and are like "Oh, shit I forgot all about that".

Happens with knives all the time, I can't think guns are any easier to spot.

More like fish net stocking Covid mask. Last I looked they failed to catch 75-90%.

 

[tgenec86]

They must be losing sleep over this one. More gun control means less terrible soon to be terrorists creating mayhem and horror in the skies at any given second (not that it EVER happens, but they can hope it does someday to justify their paranoia), but "That fine — $13,910 — and losing your TSA pre-check" means a shitload of dimes they're not going to collect - and if there's one thing a parasitic POS politician likes more that "doing something about guns!!!" it's cold, hard cash.

Hope the dipshits paralyze themselves with indecision.

 

[REF]

When is the establishment going to realize…….. THAT AMERICA LOVES GUNS, ITS JUST A FACT OF LIFE , GET THE FUCK OVER IT, ITS WHAT WE DO.

 

[tgenec86]

When is the establishment going to realize…….. THAT AMERICA LOVES GUNS, ITS JUST A FACT OF LIFE , GET THE FUCK OVER IT, ITS WHAT WE DO.

And that's the point - they don't want us to have them and will chip away at those rights in any way they can. A fearful, unarmed populace is easy to control.

 

[BerettaGuy]

86% of them were loaded. The horror!

Record number of guns found at TSA checkpoints last year, 86% of them loaded, agency says.

"That presents a significant health, safety and security concern for us," TSA Administrator David Pekoske told CBS News' transportation correspondent Errol Barnett...."What's causing it? I don't know exactly, but generally I think our weapons carriage detections reflect just more people carrying weapons in the country," he said.

The 5,972 guns intercepted at U.S. airports last year represent a 35% increase, or more than 1,500 more weapons, compared with 2019. The agency also reports that 86% of those firearms were loaded.
This begs the question. If a "firearm" isn't loaded, is it a firearm or a rock?

 

[fresch]

Get a shit load of dimes.