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How Many Guns the TSA Confiscated at Your Local Airport in 2014
- Someone1234 12y agoI suspect, although I cannot prove, that this change might also be the result of more people taking hand luggage than ever before. In 2014 almost every single inter-US airline charges for checked bags. Most charge $25/per direction (regardless of legs). In the past few years fewer and fewer airlines give free checked luggage, and many even dropped the "free with platinum" "free with credit card" offers. So I suspect that the increases are down to simply more carry on bags. Plus it might be easier to forget one in a carry on bag, since you could be re-using your day bag or your camping bag, which might just always have a firearm in it. While you could just as easily forget the gun in a checked bag, it is less likely people routinely leave guns in those bags to begin with so there is little to forget. I will say the X-Ray machines are a little smarter. They now colour-code everything by material type, so metals stick out a little more, so that might help also.