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'Staggering': More Than 5,000 Guns Seized At Airports Nationwide So Far This Year, TSA Reports 'Staggering': More Than 5,000 Guns Seized At Airports Nationwide So Far This Year, TSA Reports
'Staggering': More Than 5,000 Guns Seized At Airports Nationwide So Far This Year, TSA Reports A Connecticut man was seized at LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday after TSA screening revealed a loaded .380-caliber handgun in his carry-on bag. Port Authority police confiscated the gun and arrested the Newton, CT man on a weapons charge after the Transportation Security Administration X-ray machine alerted a screener, the TSA's Lisa Farbstein said on Oct. 3. “The number of individuals who are stopped with guns at checkpoints across the country is staggering," said Robert Duffy, the TSA’s federal security director for the airport. "Nationwide, TSA officers have already detected more than …

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by Jerry DeMarco