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At Newark International Airport, a Mississippi man was arrested by police after attempting to fly with a disassembled 9mm firearm hidden in a Lego box, according to TSA officials.. The gun frame ...
A major drug smuggling ring that used checked luggage at LAX to move meth, fentanyl and other narcotics to Florida is uncovered in two-year investigation.
The TSA said it intercepted 6,678 firearms at airport security checkpoints last year. It was a small decrease from last year — but incidents have doubled since 2015.
The checkpoints are described as "the third layer in the Border Patrol's three-layer strategy", following "line watch" and "roving patrol" operations near the border. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, [2] Border Patrol agents at checkpoints have legal authority that agents do not have when patrolling areas away from the ...
Year-end figures released by the TSA showed 6,678 firearms were identified at airport checkpoints nationwide during 2024 — a slight decrease from the 6,737 found in 2023. Nearly 6,700 guns were ...
Prior to 9/11, the security staff was generally undertrained with a reported training time of 12 hours prior to 9/11; afterwards, this training was increased to more than 100 hours. [3] They also implemented verification tests of the training by projecting images of banned objects on machines to see if workers would be able to identify them. [ 1 ]
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The TSA found more than 5,000 firearms at airport security checkpoints in the first nine months of this year. The TSA says it finds an average of 18 firearms a day at airports, and over 90% of ...