{"id":84522,"date":"2022-02-23T22:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/?p=84522"},"modified":"2022-02-23T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:21:12","slug":"theres-a-spike-in-gun-confiscations-at-d-c-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/transport\/theres-a-spike-in-gun-confiscations-at-d-c-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#39;s a spike in gun confiscations at D.C. airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An increase in the number of people caught with firearms at Washington Dulles and Washington Reagan National security checkpoints is raising concern within the TSA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday press release, the agency said it had confiscated 49 firearms at the D.C.-area airports in 2021. Most of the guns were loaded. That&#8217;s substantially up from 2018 and 2019, when 33 guns were intercepted in each year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, the agency has intercepted eight guns at the two D.C. airports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Related: A gun in your carry-on? Some are calling for stiffer fines<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The most common excuse we hear is that someone forgot that they had their gun with them,&#8221; said Scott T. Johnson, the TSA&#8217;s federal security director for Dulles and Reagan airports. &#8220;That&#8217;s no excuse. If you own a firearm, you need to know where it is at all times. It&#8217;s part of being a responsible gun owner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The surge in D.C. tracks with national trends. TSA screeners intercepted a record 5,972 guns in 2021, 86% of which were loaded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a House transportation security subcommittee hearing last week, lawmakers and airport executives suggested raising fines for gun violations at TSA checkpoints. Currently, individuals who are caught attempting to carry a gun onto an airplane can face fines ranging from $1,500 to $13,910.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other suggestions at the hearing included placing violators on the no-fly list until they undergo a gun safety program and suspending them from TSA PreCheck and other trusted traveler programs.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/Travel-News\/Airline-News\/Spike-gun-confiscations-D-C-airports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increase in the number of people caught with firearms at Washington Dulles and Washington Reagan National security checkpoints is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There&#039;s a spike in gun confiscations at D.C. airports - 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