The Transportation Security Administration says it’s anticipating that by the end of the year they’ll have nabbed 6,600 weapons. The agency says that’s nearly a 10% increase over last year.
The federal agency tasked with screening passengers before they get on planes says officers this year have stopped a record number of guns brought by passengers attempting to go through airport security checkpoints.
In response, the agency said it is increasing the maximum civil penalty for firearms violations to $14,950. Passengers caught with a weapon also lose their TSA PreCheck status — a security program that allows passengers that go through prescreening to bypass some airport security measures like taking their shoes off — for at least five years, the agency said.
With the exception of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic caused air traffic to plummet, the number of guns intercepted at airport checkpoints has steadily climbed every year since 2010, the agency said. In 2014, for example,, including 29 guns at Portland International Airport. It was not clear Sunday how many of the more than 6,000 firearms found so far in 2022 were intercepted at Portland’s airport.
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