NEW YORK: The number of travelers attempting to pass through US airport security checkpoints with firearms hit a record high in 2021, even as air travel languished below pre-pandemic levels, US media reported recently.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has stopped travelers carrying more than 5,700 firearms at US airports since the beginning of 2021, far surpassing the previous record of 4,432 firearms in 2019, and about 85 percent of the firearms found in 2021 were loaded, The Bangor Daily News quoted TSA spokesperson R. Carter Langston as saying.
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