In the good old US of A, many people regard it as their God-given right to travel everywhere with their gun/s. Even on planes.
It was revealed recently that the Transportation Security Administration has seized more than 1,500 guns at airports since the beginning of the year.
A total of 1,508 firearms were found by TSA officers at airport security checks during the first quarter of 2023 - a 10.3% increase over the same period last year, Travel Mole reported.
Even more remarkably, more than 93% of the weapons were loaded.
“Firearms at TSA security checkpoints present an unacceptable safety risk to other passengers and I am deeply concerned that the majority of these firearms our TSOs catch are loaded,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in a brilliant example of stating the obvious.
“If you carry a firearm, our TSOs will see it and there will be significant penalties.”
The civil penalty for firearms violations was recently increased to nearly $US15,000 but is apparently having little effect as a deterrent to these freedom-loving folk.
Officers confiscated 6,542 firearms at 262 different US airports last year.
Even the politicians are at it.
Just last year Republican (of course!) Madison Cawthorn from North Carolina was cited at a South Carolina airport for bringing a loaded gun through a checkpoint.
Image: Haymar Santibanez, Scop.io
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