WASHINGTON – Transportation Security Administration officials say they have found over 1,400 loaded weapons and other dangerous devices while screening carry-on luggage at U.S. airports so far in 2014.
“The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the component of the Department of Homeland Security that interacts with the public the most,” a TSA official said Wednesday. “Less well known is the actual difference TSA makes daily to aviation security.”
Approximately 1.8 million people a day are screened by TSA before boarding an aircraft in this country.
Just within the first 10 months of this calendar year, TSA has discovered a total of 1,855 firearms in the carry-on baggage of those about to board an aircraft; 1,471 of which were loaded. In the same period a total, a total of 3,048 firearms, firearm components, replica firearms, stun guns, and other similar dangerous objects have been discovered by TSA from passengers in their carry-on luggage. Last week alone, TSA discovered 41 firearms (34 of which were loaded), 16 stun guns, four replica grenades, a 13-inch cane sword, and a box-cutter found concealed in the lining of a carry-on bag. When firearms are discovered by TSA, they are turned over to local law enforcement authorities, resulting in an arrest in about 20 percent of the cases (see the images that accompany this statement).
“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,” the official said.
As a gun owner, left you scare me. You are so ignorant about what is going on in the government, you would be one of the first to say yes you can take my guns if it means being safe from criminals. Hillary clinton even said it herself, losing some of our rights in order to make us alittle more safer is a good thing. I say anytime we lose any of our rights brings us that much closer to tyrannical rule. You would be the firswt to give up your rights.
If the government, as you say left, is not going to take our guns then why did hundreds of sheriffs get together and send a letter to obama telling him that if he passes the laws he wants to, they will not take away our guns? If they see it happening then why can’t you? What I don’t understand is that there are millions of gun owners that see it happening but liberals that own guns are totally ignorant, I just don’t get it.
Yet for some reason that belief doesn’t apply to a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions. But you don’t care about that because you’re not a woman, and you care about guns more than people.
Healthcare for a woman or a man is NOT a constitutional right, so your argument is just that, an argument because you know that I am right and you are totally wrong.
Don’t you think it’s idiotic that it’s not? And what does it say about people like you who feel that everyone is entitled to own a gun but not to basic human health care. It’s completely insane.
It doesn’t matter if you think it should be in the constitution, the fact that it isn’t says it all. The fact that the constitution says that we are ALL guaranteed the RIGHT to bear arms but says nothing about healthcare. Get off your lazy government sucking a$$ and get involved in politics and get yourself elected and then get an amendment for healthcare. The fact that all you do is sit there and complain about it makes you a moron.
The fact that you value guns more than people makes you a frightening, and sad individual.
Ok I am going to say this only once then I will do to you what I did with peter. The 2nd amendment, guns, is a RIGHT FROM GOD, not a privileged. Thats why it is in the bill of rights and healthcare isn’t. I am done arguing with an ignorant selfserving government sucking a$$ kissing peice of crap that doesn’t care about anybodys rights but your own wants.
@maybe-why would anyone care about the health of anyone as ignorant as “Left Philamena2”? They think they have a right to sponge and live off everyone else. What ever happened to personal pride and personal responsibility?
When the socialists took office personal pride went right out the window as did any common sense.
LOL you believe the 2nd amendment and right to bear arms was given to you by God? NEWSFLASH: God isn’t real, there is no man in the sky controlling things. You just got a whole lot scarier. You right wing nut jobs are truly horrible, heartless people aren’t you?
Wither you or I believe that God is real or not doesn’t matter, our founding fathers did believe that he was real and if you bothered to read the constitution and the bill of rights you will see that these rights are given by God, not man.
@LeftPhilamena2-There are a whole lot of people in this world that think you are wrong about this just like you are wrong about so many other things. When Obama’s buddy’s the Muslim’s get here you will be among the first ones handed their heads in a sack.
Spoken like a true Christian. LOL what a couple of hypocrites.
@LfetPhilamena2-You know nothing about me fool. But at least I have respect for religions. Except for Muslim’s. That is not a religion, it is a cult.
They’re all cults you idiot. And Jesus was the biggest liberal of them all. Your skewed view of religion is scary, self serving, and hypocritical.
@LeftPhilamena2-You are certainly a member of the Axis of IDIOTS as well as being a fool. You know absolutely nothing about me or what I know or do not know. Even though I am no longer real religious I certainly do believe in God. Only a fool and a idiot wouldn’t think that something created all of this. It doesn’t matter what you call him/her/it. It didn’t just happen. I respect other people right to believe in what they want as long as it doesn’t endanger anyone else. Then it becomes a…
@Philamena2-cont.=cult. I have reasons of my own for being the way I am. However, I have studied religion fairly extensively in both protestant and catholic religion’s. I know the similarity’s of both and the failings. If it makes people feel better to believe I am all for it. It is better to feel that way than to be a miserable hater like you.
I contest that only a fool would believe in some sort of magic man flying around in the sky. Religion is for the feeble minded. I’m far from miserable and I don’t hate anyone or anything. Unlike you with your racist incomprehensible ranting. I’m quite content with myself and my life, unlike you who sits in fear of the boogieman that the right wing nut jobs have made you believe is there. PS – it’s not.
Famous last words, “What God”?
1.8 million per day and – 1400 people during the year check their LEGAL carry guns? Good job protection and buy the way if there were’nt so many illeagels in this country we could depend on the fuzz for protection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKjxFJfcrcA
Can someone please explain to me why all of the gun nuts are also complete idiots? It just goes hand in hand. First of all “anonymous” the article is focusing on people trying to CARRY ON their guns, no check them. There’s a big difference here. You’re allowed to check legal firearms, not carry them on. Your second sentence is indicative of the insane ramblings of someone who has drunk the kool aid of the right wing fear machine, not to mention the spelling and grammar errors are…
Do you ever have anything of substance to contribute to a conversation? Or is rambling incoherently the best you can do?
@Left Philamena2-When talking to someone of your limited mental ability I must come down to your level. So, you think of yourself as a professional. I suppose prostitution can be call a profession still. I suppose you do your best work on your back. You have sure prostituted yourself to Philamena1 and the liberal cause. So glad you have left. I doubt very much that you even work and are probably just another welfare baby like Philamena1 your twin brother.
So…no then?
Hey left, you are exercising here your 2st amendment rights of free speech. Do you know how you got your 1st amendment rights? people using their 2nd amendment rights got you your 1st amendment rights. You call everybody that owns a gun an idiot, well that statement is your opinion which you are entitled but that also makes you look like someone of very very limited intelligence.
I own guns and I’m not an idiot. I would never try and carry my Chiappa Rhino 20ds onto an airplane. I know enough to check the gun. It’s the open carry gun nut idiots who make responsible gun owners, like myself, look bad. There can, and should be some restrictions on owning weapons without violating your 2nd amendment rights. No one is going to take your guns away, no one has, and no one will. People like “anonymous” up there and others who don’t think rationally are the problem.
@LeftPhilamena2-You finally said something I agree with here. It is pretty stupid to carry a firearm on a airplane (or even into a airport) when all you have to do is check and declare it. I am willing to bet it was all liberals that tried to break the law.
I guess obama is very lucky to have you, it could be raining out and if obama told you that the sun was shining you would believe him. If you look at the laws being passed in california and new york and conneticut or at least half a dozen more states you will see that our 2nd amendment rights are in danger of being taken away and once they take them then our 1st amendment rights will be next and you will be sitting there in the dark wondering what happened. Fools like you are what happened.
@maybe-Good comment. These people have no clue that it has to be a continuous fight to save our right. They all want what they want and to hell with the constitution.
LVS pretty sure the gun nuts who feel they are entitled to do whatever, whenever they want with their guns are also conservatives. Taking that extreme position on guns is what’s hurting gun owners and causing these laws you cite to be passed Maybe. You feel that any regulation passed regarding guns is a violation of the bill of rights, it’s not. If you are rational about gun ownership you’ll be allowed to keep your guns. Get your gun nut counterparts under control and we’ll all be happy.
@Maybe please tell me the last gun you owned that the government took away from you.
Hey left, you say you own a gun, do you have a CCW too? The law was changed here in iowa from may to shall. That means that unless they cannot legally pass the background check the sheriff HAS to give you a permit if you ask for 1. It is that 1 word that changed everything SHALL. As in “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED’. According to the constitution and the bill of rights, any law limiting our rights to carry or own a weapon is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Take that and shove it up your liberal a$$.
The Jews said the same thing about having their guns taken away in the 1930’s, it will never happen because it has never happened before.
Yes, I have a CCW Permit. I’m still waiting for you to tell me which gun you’ve owned that the government has taken away from you…
It’s the people for whom their guns are their most prized possessions and worth more to them than anything else that scare me the most. They are also the people that are the reason the laws you cite are being passed. Their worst enemy is themselves, not the government.
Al the anti gun laws are nothing but feel good laws. They want to keep the guns out of criminals hands so they target the legal gun owners, makes as much sense as targeting the tire company for all the car accidents. You keep pushing what weapons I have had taken by the government, none because they haven’t gotten that far here in iowa but other states are getting that far and eventually they will get here to iowa, just because you can close your eyes and say it won’t happen mean it won’t.