TSA Intercepts Record Number of Firearms at Airport Security Checkpoints in 2023

Published on February 22, 2024

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it intercepted 6,737 firearms at airport security checkpoints in 2023, exceeding all previous yearly records. “Why more guns? More passengers combined with more people who own firearms,” said TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein in an email to The Epoch Times. “It has increased every year except during the 2020 COVID year.” The total number of firearms detections for 2023 surpasses the 6,542 firearms stopped at airport checkpoints in 2022. Of the daily numbers of firearms intercepted last year, 93 percent were loaded, according to a TSA statement. “We are still seeing far too many firearms at TSA checkpoints, and what’s particularly concerning is the amount of them loaded, presenting an unnecessary risk to everyone at the TSA checkpoint,” wrote TSA Administrator David Pekoske....

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