New Englanders seem to love their gun-shaped key hooks, as two have been found in as many days in carry-on bags in the region’s largest airports.
“Yes…even key hooks like this one that resemble a firearm cannot be in your carry-on bag. A woman @BostonLogan found that out yesterday when @TSA officers detected this cast-iron key hook during security screening,” tweeted Dan Velez, the spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration in the region, on Tuesday. “Place items like these in your checked bag please! #travelfail”
The roughly 9.5-inch-long object appeared to be a half-cast replica of a revolver, with either a flat or hollow back, with mottled gold paint.
But the next day’s catch at Bradley International Airport appeared in photos to be a significantly more life-like replica of a flintlock pistol. The object, wider than the mouse pad it was lying on in the photo tweeted by Velez, appeared to be complete, without a flat or a false back and complete with trigger guard.
The woman traveling through Bradley — the region’s second-largest airport, serving passengers in the Springfield and Hartford, Conn., areas — was allowed to check the fake pistol in her luggage.
Security screenings overall in the nation’s airports continue to trend significantly higher than at the same time last year, not to mention in 2021 when numbers were roughly half at the height of the pandemic, according to the TSA’s daily chart. Since the second day of the new year, each day is posting several hundred thousand additional passengers screened in the nation’s airports.
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