TSA is useless, except for keeping people scared.

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64. TSA Finds Guns on Hundreds of Passengers Each Year

TSA Finds Guns on Hundreds of Passengers Each Year

Transportation Security Administration officers don't carry guns, but airline passengers do.

Nearly every day, and sometimes multiple times a day, TSA officers find all manner of guns on passengers or in their carry bags, pocketbooks and briefcases as they try to pass through screening in the U.S.

In the first six months of this year, Transportation Security Administration screeners found 894 guns, a 30 percent increase over the same period last year. The TSA set a record in May for the most guns seized in one week — 65 in all, 45 of them loaded and 15 with bullets in the chamber and ready to be fired. That was 30 percent more than the previous record of 50 guns, set just two weeks earlier.

Last year TSA found 1,549 firearms on passengers attempting to go through screening, up 17 percent from the year before. The number of guns found by TSA at checkpoints has more than doubled in the past eight years. There were 660 firearms found in 2005, the year TSA began keeping data on the incidents.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/tsa-finds-guns-hundreds-passengers-year-20761005