Airport security personnel have seized a record number of weapons from airline passengers for the third year in a row before they could be taken on board a flight.
More than 6,700 prohibited firearms were prevented from being brought onto aircraft by airport security agents in 2023, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
93% of the 6,737 weapons that TSA security officials discovered at checkpoints were loaded, according to the agency.
The previous record for firearms intercepted at airports was set in 2022, surpassing the previous record in 2021 with 6,542 firearms stopped at checks.
TSA inspected over 858 million individuals last year, meaning that it intercepted 7.8 firearms per million travelers, down from 8.6 per million passengers in 2022.
