TSA discovers 11 firearms in carry-on luggage during screenings at Sea-Tac this month

Eleven firearms have been discovered in carry-on luggage during routine screenings at security checkpoints in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport this month.

At this point last year, a total of seven firearms had been discovered.

The latest occurred around 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday when an officer with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spotted an image of a firearm during an X-ray screening. The passenger, bound to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, was escorted out by law enforcement, according to TSA.

[keybored]

thats the safest place for them, never let your firearms go outside of your sight

[Celebok]

Why aren't they saying whether these are people intentionally trying to sneak guns onto the plane, or just cases of, "Oops, I forgot that was in there, silly me"...?

[weisserth]

Replace the financial fine with a five year prison term on first offense, no parole, no early release. Let's see if firearms owners continue to be negligent about this then.

[TheCommunicationCoach]

But...but...but...the 2nd Amendment says we can do anything and everything with any sort of power or payload on them! The FF knew someday we'd need fully-auto death dealers so they could overthrow our govt. when their guy lost.