800 firearms nabbed by airport security

Oct. 12, 2011

About 800 firearms have been discovered this year by Transportation Security Administration screeners in carry-on luggage at airports across the country. The agency says that in one week in September, agents found three firearms, with ammunition, in the bags of a man at Orlando's airport. Three throwing knives were uncovered in carry-on luggage in Baltimore. An inert grenade turned up in a bag in Atlanta.

Scripps Howard News Service

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