The U.S. Transportation Security Administration seized a record 2,212 firearms from carry-on luggage in 2014, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported Friday.
That’s more than the TSA has seized in any other year of its existence, and it’s a 22% increase from the 1,813 guns seized in 2013. (The agency actually hit a record 2,000 seizures on December 1, before the year was over.)
That’s an average of six guns per day.
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Fake guns aren’t OK, either. The TSA also found more than 1,400 firearm components, replica firearms, stun guns and other “dangerous objects” in carry-on luggage.
Don’t bring firearm replicas through passenger screening. Check them or ship them ahead of time.
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