Posted on 02/10/2025 6:50:35 AM PST by marktwain
During the year 2024, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) discovered 6,678 firearms in the baggage of 904 million people who were screened at TSA checkpoints in the calendar year. This was slightly lower than the 6,737 firearms discovered in 2023 when 858 million people were screened.
The rate of people who were found to possess firearms at airport security checkpoints was down from .0000785% to .0000739%, a minor reduction in the tiny percentage of firearms discovered at airport security checkpoints. The reduction amounts to 59 fewer firearms discovered, a bit less than 1% of the total.
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida (permitless), Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
A survey conducted in 2023 found that 15.6% of voters in general elections carried concealed handguns.
About 155 million people voted in the 2024 election. If the survey was correct, there would be about 24 million voters in the United States who carry concealed handguns on a regular basis. That is about 7.3% of the total population. If we assume the percentage of legal concealed carriers is the same among the population of passengers screened at airport checkpoints, the number of screenings of legal concealed handgun carriers would be 7.3% of 904 million.
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The compliance level at TSA checkpoints is extremely high.
This data shows that more Americans need to arm themselves. Only 6,678 of 904 million? That’s terrible.
I never fly anywhere without my Colt 45. I keep it in my flight bag. No one ever checks it.
People forget what’s in their bags a lot!
They may use a back pack that they took to the range and forget to take items out. Definitely recommend having a designated bag for travel or one for just firearms to avoid this.
TSA found my pocketknife last month. They were very professional and polite about it. Fortunately, I had time to go check my bag so I didn’t have to dispose of it.
What? You’re saying you put your bag in the X-ray machine and no one’s seen it? I don’t believe it.
FWIW: Found an all metal Gerber folding survival knife on a hike. Girl with me insisted I take it, so I put it in my knapsack. Forgot about it. Months later used said knapsack as carry on for cross-country flight. Went through check at SFO and O’Hare. Neither one caught it. Unfolded, a 10” knife.
You can mail it to yourself. There are Dropbox’s at the checkpoint and the agents will help you with it.
This, This THIS!!!
If you can spring for a firearm, you can get a specific bag/case for it. Gotta keep that separate.
No. I have a single engine airplane. Its like driving your car. Nobody knows where you are going or what you decide to carry with you. Don’t fly much because it is way too expensive.
I never fly anywhere without my Colt 45. I keep it in my flight bag. No one ever checks it.
Private pilot?
TSA checkpoints do not apply to private pilots and their own planes.
Didn’t Sam Kinison have a joke about not letting your girlfriend pack your luggage when she is mad at you?
If you follow the rules you can legally take your firearm on board.
“You may transport unloaded firearms in a locked hard-sided container as checked baggage only. Declare the firearm and/or ammunition to the airline when checking your bag at the ticket counter. The container must completely secure the firearm from being accessed. Locked cases that can be easily opened are not permitted. Be aware that the container the firearm was in when purchased may not adequately secure the firearm when it is transported in checked baggage.”
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition
I have a couple of those cases used when traveling through deep commie states like Illinois.
I can’t wait for national concealed carry. It will be an interesting test going into Commiefornia at a checkpoint to see what they say when asked if I’m carrying.
according to my constitution, there are no unauthorized firearms.
In the 90s, I had a carry on bag that would hold a laptop and a bunch of other stuff. I would sometimes use it for a range bag. So you’d end up with the odd 9mm casing in the bottom, that sort of thing.
9/11 happened, and yeah, that became a dedicated range bag and I got a carryon backpack that never sees a weapon or related accoutrements/accessories.
I did not want to be a problem child statistic. Not even once.
6,678 firearms, and how many hijackings in the same period?
I carried a folding knife on an airplane back in 2001. They even checked the blade length and said it was OK. A couple of months BEFORE 9-11.
You really need to read the highly suppressed and now out of print 1982 Senate report on the RKBA. I have a paper copy from the US Government printing office.
Here is an on line copy.
https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html
“The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.”
19th century cases
16. * Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, at 560, 34 Am. Rep. 52, at 54 (1878).
“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the (p.17)penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.”
17. * Jennings v. State, 5 Tex. Crim. App. 298, at 300-01 (1878).
“We believe that portion of the act which provides that, in case of conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the county the weapon or weapons so found on or about his person is not within the scope of legislative authority. * * * One of his most sacred rights is that of having arms for his own defence and that of the State. This right is one of the surest safeguards of liberty and self-preservation.”
18. * Andrews v. State, 50 Tenn. 165, 8 Am. Rep. 8, at 17 (1871).
“The passage from Story (Joseph Story: Comments on the Constitution) shows clearly that this right was intended, as we have maintained in this opinion, and was guaranteed to and to be exercised and enjoyed by the citizen as such, and not by him as a soldier, or in defense solely of his political rights.”
19. * Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
And the SCOTUS case that led to the Civil War..
Are Negros citizens...Dred Scott
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased.... and it would give them full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
Paragraph 77 in the link below.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html
Heh. See my prior post.
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