Air Passengers Dropped 60 In 2020 But Gun Seizures Increased To All Time High
2020 gun seizures at checkpoints doubled from 2019, as the TSA saw a record number—about 10 firearms per million passengers screened—while people traveled by air 60 percent less than in 2019, the lowest rate since the mid-1980s, according to U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. “The vast majority of people who bring guns to checkpoints claim that they forgot that they had their guns with them. Last year, 83 percent of the firearms brought to airports were loaded, so that means people were telling us that they forgot that they had a loaded gun with them,” Lisa Farbstein, a TSA spokeswoman, told Newsweek....