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The TSA Has a New Record for Guns Found at Airport Checkpoints

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Jason Clampet

Photo Credit: Some of the guns confiscated by the TSA at U.S. airport checkpoints in 2013.  TSA Blog Team

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More Americans have more weapons than ever before, and they've become even more careless than anyone would like to imagine.

Flyers at United States airports just broke a record for the third year in a row. As in 2012 and 2013, the number of guns discovered at airport security checkpoints by the Transportation Security Administration surpassed the number of guns discovered in the previous year. The 2013 tally was 1,813 weapons found, 1,477 of which were loaded. In 2012 the tota

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