The Transportation Security Administration confiscated the sixth gun within eight days on Friday at a security checkpoint in Reagan National Airport.
This was also the fourth gun in three days that the TSA had confiscated from the security checkpoint, making it the 18th gun this year, WTOP reported .
The latest gun confiscation was from an Alexandria, Virginia man who brought his .38-caliber handgun loaded with seven bullets to the checkpoint.
“We have caught more guns in just the first seven months of this year than any other full calendar year,” said Scott T. Johnson, the TSA federal security director for Reagan National Airport, according to WTOP. “The most common excuse we hear is that someone forgot that they had their gun with them. That’s just not acceptable.”And let me be clear that even if you have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, you still cannot bring it on to your […]
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