Despite steep fines for air passengers caught with firearms at airport checkpoints, gun owners are not getting the message.
The latter scenario may soon be the norm, thanks to a loosening of gun laws around the country. In 2021 and 2022, a wave of 10 states – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Utah – passed laws no longer requiring residents to hold a permit to carry a concealed firearm. A legislative priority for the National Rifle Association and other groups, permitless carry measures are now in place in nearly half of all states.
Consider Tennessee. In the week between October 18 and October 25, the TSA caught eight firearms at Nashville International Airport security checkpoints, bringing the airport’s year-to-date total to 170, beating last year’s record of 163. With two months left in the year, Memphis International Airport has also already broken its own record for guns caught at a rate three and a half times greater than the national average.
In a ranking of airports where TSA caught the most guns last year, Hartsfield-Jackson handily beat Dallas/Fort Worth , Houston’s George W. Bush and Phoenix Sky Harbor , according to TSA data.Several months after the incident at Hartsfield-Jackson airport, the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee in charge of transportation security held aat TSA checkpoints.
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