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Guns confiscated at US airports hit record levels<\/a><\/p>\n A record number of firearms was confiscated from US airport passengers in 2022, transport officials have said.<\/p>\n A total of 6,301 guns were taken at checkpoints as of mid-December – and of those 88% were still loaded.<\/p>\n The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it expects to confiscate 6,600 guns by year’s end – a 10% increase over 2021’s record level.<\/p>\n The agency said guns brought to airports consumes significant resources and is very costly for the passenger.<\/p>\n The number of guns found surpasses the previous record from just last year, when 5,972 firearms were detected.<\/p>\n Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, had the highest number of recorded firearm stops, while Dallas\/Fort Worth Airport in the state of Texas had the second highest.<\/p>\n No reason was given for why more people were attempting to clear security while carrying a weapon.<\/p>\n Gun possession laws vary by US state, but firearms are not allowed in the passenger cabin on an aeroplane, even if a passenger has a concealed weapon permit.<\/p>\n If TSA officials detect a weapon at a checkpoint, they issue a civil penalty that varies by number of previous offenses and whether the gun was loaded at the time.<\/p>\n The agency also said it is raising the maximum civil penalty for a firearms violation from $13,910 (\u00a311,450) to $14,950.<\/p>\n Airline passengers can travel with firearms in a checked bag when they are unloaded and locked in a hard-sided case. Travellers must also tell airline representatives that they intend to travel with the weapon during check-in.<\/p>\n In April a US Congressman, Madison Cawthorn, was stopped attempting to bring a gun through security at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, local police said. He admitted the weapon was his and cooperated with officers.<\/p>\n The TSA said it screened more than 2.5 million individuals nationwide on 27 November – the Sunday after the Thanksgiving holiday – marking the highest volume since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n There were an estimated 390 million guns in circulation in the US in 2018, according to figures from the Small Arms Survey – a Swiss-based leading research project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please check your baggage Guns confiscated at US airports hit record levels A record number of firearms was confiscated from US airport passengers in 2022, transport officials have said. A total of 6,301 guns were taken at checkpoints as of mid-December – and of those 88% were still loaded. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88743,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88742\/revisions\/88743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}