TSA seizes record number of guns from 2014 air travelers, including 94-year-old

Government screeners at airport checkpoints seized a record number of guns in 2014. Air travelers caught trying to board a plane with a weapon included a 94-year-old man at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The man had a loaded .38-caliber revolver clipped to his belt. The TSA said about 83 percent of the confiscated guns were loaded. There has been a steady hike in the number of guns seized at TSA checkpoints since 2005. The top five airports for weapon seizures were Dallas/Fort Worth (120), Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson (109), Phoenix Sky Harbor (78), Houston George Bush (77) and Denver (70). The seizures included not just small firearms, but a grenade and a loaded assault rifle with three loaded magazines...more