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01-14-2017, 05:02 AM
Americans still love bringing guns to the airport, and 2016 was a record year
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When packing up to get on the plane, you might want to leave that loaded gun at home.*
That might sound obvious, but 2016 actually saw the highest number of guns seized at airport security checkpoints — almost 3,400 firearms and 83 percent of them loaded — since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was founded in 2001, the government agency an**unced (http://www.travelpulse.com/news/impacting-travel/tsa-uncovered-record-3391-guns-at-us-airports-in-2016.html) on Thursday.
A total of 3,391 guns were seized at nearly 240 different airports across the country. Last year, TSA agents uncovered over 2,650 guns at security checkpoints. That marks a 28 percent jump from 2015 to 2016, although the agency **tes there was also 43 million more passengers in 2016 than the year before. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/2016-most-guns-at-airports/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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When packing up to get on the plane, you might want to leave that loaded gun at home.*
That might sound obvious, but 2016 actually saw the highest number of guns seized at airport security checkpoints — almost 3,400 firearms and 83 percent of them loaded — since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was founded in 2001, the government agency an**unced (http://www.travelpulse.com/news/impacting-travel/tsa-uncovered-record-3391-guns-at-us-airports-in-2016.html) on Thursday.
A total of 3,391 guns were seized at nearly 240 different airports across the country. Last year, TSA agents uncovered over 2,650 guns at security checkpoints. That marks a 28 percent jump from 2015 to 2016, although the agency **tes there was also 43 million more passengers in 2016 than the year before. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/2016-most-guns-at-airports/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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