Americans still love bringing guns to the airport, and 2016 was a record year
 

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 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...

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