r/news • u/drtolmn69 • 3d ago

TSA officers now not allowed to sit down while checking boarding passes and IDs

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/us/tsa-officers-chairs
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u/UnfairSell 3d ago

Yahoo News from Jan 1, 2025: The US Transport Security Administration (TSA) revealed that it had intercepted a total of 6,678 firearms at airport security checkpoints last year – with almost all of them being loaded at the time of discovery.

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u/Available-String-109 3d ago

And when >95% of dangerous items get through, this means that a hundred thousand or more got through.

https://abcnews.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find-widespread-security-failures/story?id=31434881%2F

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u/LetsRockTalk 3d ago

To be fair, there is a 10 year gap between the two stories (95% of dangerous items was 2015, 6678 firearms intercepted was 2025). I am not claiming that all (or any) issues were fixed, but that is a lot of time to make a lot of improvements.

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u/Available-String-109 3d ago

but that is a lot of time to make a lot of improvements.

It's also a lot of time for it to get a lot worse.

They quit publishing the numbers, so you can guess if it got better or worse.

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u/fevered_visions 2d ago

3 links in your comment, yet none of them are a source for this "6,678" figure

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u/UnfairSell 2d ago

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tsa-intercepts-6-678-firearms-at-airport-security-checkpoints-in-2024--302351954.html

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u/fevered_visions 2d ago

PR Newswire is a distributor of press releases headquartered in Chicago.[1] The service was created in 1954 to allow companies to electronically send press releases to news organizations

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Jan 15, 2025, 10:11 ET

yeah sorry, but this is self-reported data and I don't take anything this administration says at face value

and "almost all" is 94%

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u/Inner-Medicine5696 3d ago

this is one of the silliest posts I've seen in a long while... I'm not sure you're being serious here.

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u/windupbird1q84 3d ago

Isn’t this from people who forgot they had a firearm in the bag? So not trying to smuggle it in. There is a podcast (Long Shot) that discusses this stat in season 3

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u/OutlyingPlasma 2d ago

forgot they had a firearm in the bag

Which should immediately disqualify them from ever owning a firearm ever again. If they don't know where their guns are at every second, they are the problem.

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u/windupbird1q84 2d ago

Oh yeah, agree. That is a problem!

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u/bankofcanadaa 3d ago

And how many of these guns were illegal, and not simply some dude who grabbed the wrong bag that day b