TSA: Four to Five guns found per day found at nation's airports

Screeners have prevented more than 940 guns from getting on board planes so far this year
Nov. 2, 2011

WASHINGTON Federal airport screeners find four or five handguns in people’s luggage every day, the head of the Transportation Security Administration revealed yesterday.

“Yesterday, we found six, including one at . . . Bradley [International Airport near Hartford — a loaded gun with seven rounds in it, in a checked bag,†TSA Administrator John Pistole told the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

The screeners have prevented more than 940 guns from getting on board planes at checkpoints nationwide so far this year.

Fliers “typically say they forgot it was in their bag,†said a TSA spokesman.

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