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TSA Tops New Record For Guns Seized At Richmond International Airport Checkpoints TSA Tops New Record For Guns Seized At Richmond International Airport Checkpoints
TSA Tops New Record For Guns Seized At Richmond International Airport Checkpoints The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) team at Richmond International Airport in Virginia has now seized a new annual record for the number of firearms recovered at security checkpoints in a single year. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, the TSA announced that its team at the airport in Richmond busted two people with loaded guns over the weekend, marking the 22nd and 23rd guns to be stopped at checkpoints, up from a high of 22 in 2020 and a low of six weapons as recently as 2015. Officials say that the first stop was of a Midlothian man who was caught with a .22 caliber handgun and two magazi…

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by Zak Failla
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Virginia Traveler Had Knife 'Artfully' Hidden In Laptop At Richmond International Airport: TSA Virginia Traveler Had Knife 'Artfully' Hidden In Laptop At Richmond International Airport: TSA
Virginia Traveler Had Knife 'Artfully' Hidden In Laptop At Richmond International Airport: TSA A Virginia man was caught at Richmond International Airport with a knife "artfully" hidden inside a laptop, authorities said. The Williamsburg traveler was stopped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at the security checkpoint on Friday, Nov. 11, after they'd detected a knife in his carry-on bag, TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said. The double-bladed knife was discovered after officers ran the man's bag through the X-ray machine a second time, which revealed that it was inside the "inner workings" of his laptop, the spokesperson said. The man claimed that he had …

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by Nicole Acosta