All Points: Guns at the airport

On average, slightly more often than every 2.5 days last year Transportation Security Administration officers found a firearm in somebody’s carry-on bag at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. The total was 153 firearms found at DFW, more than any other airport in the U.S.

Nationwide, TSA found 2,653 firearms on carry-on bags, up 20 percent from 2014. Almost 83 percent were loaded.

DFW boards more than 30 million passengers a year, so 153 packing guns is not a big share. But what possible excuse could there be for trying to take a gun on a commercial aircraft?

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This story was originally published January 25, 2016 at 5:35 PM with the headline "All Points: Guns at the airport."