TSA stops two Newark passengers with pistols loaded with checkpoint
Last year, the TSA captured 6,542 firearms at 262 out of 430 airport security checks on a national scale.
The Security Administration (TSA) transportation at Newark Liberty International Airport is very alert after their officers seized two cannons loaded within 24 hours of each other. In a press release on May 4, the TSA revealed that the two incidents occurred to a security checkpoint in terminal B and 9 mm fist weapons involved . After detection, the police of the port authority rushed to the scene and safely withdrew firearms in charge of the X -ray machine.
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The two travelers came to New Jersey airport from New York, one from Brooklyn and the other from Garnerville, about an hour north of Newark. And in both cases, these travelers had the same type of handgun.
TSA reports that these incidents were not linked. In other disturbing news, Thomas Carter , Federal TSA Security Director for New Jersey, said Newark Airport was about to exceed the number of firearms detected in 2022.
After the incidents of May 3 and 4, the total of Newark firearms detected for this year is now seven. Last year, the TSA control point officers in Newark discovered 14 cannons.
In addition to holding the safety line and endangering your vacation projects, There is a federal financial civil penalty - up to $ 15,000 - to bring a firearm to a security checkpoint.
However, there is still a way to carry firearms. While You can't pack Wireless curling, vaping devices, 151 evidence rums or thermometers in your checkered luggage, surprisingly, travelers can pack their firearms. The ASA website educated Travelers who turn firearms :: "You can carry firearms not loaded in a locked container like luggage recorded only. Declare the firearm and / or ammunition to the airline when you check your ticketing bag. The container must completely Securing the firearm. This can be easily opened is not authorized. Know that the container in which the firearm was in the purchase may not adequately secure the firearm when it is transported in recorded luggage. "
Despite this allowance, thousands of travelers try to bring their weapons to the planes each year. "The contribution of a pistol loaded to our control points has a security and security problem," Carter said in the press release. "These two consecutive catches of firearms bring our count to seven cannons detected at our control points this calendar year. Record for the number of firearms detected in a single calendar year."
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He continued: "Our TSA officers are good at what they do, but this is not the type of recording we want to define. We would prefer more travelers to bring firearms to our points security control. "
In 2022, on 430 airport security control points on a national scale, the ASD captured 6,542 firearms and, among these, 88% were loaded. The number of firearms confiscated at the control points seems to have regularly increased over time. The TSA declared 2018 a record year, with a total of 4,239 Guns discovered At the control points, while in 2021, after a drop in trips at the start of the pandemic, the TSA I found 5,972 other firearms security checkpoints. At this rate, the TSA could very well have another record year.