With three and a half months left to go, 2022 has already seen extra individuals try and take weapons by Logan International Airport than throughout the entirety of final 12 months.
“Passengers can travel by air with a firearm, but they have to follow proper procedures. It’s never OK to have a firearm in your carry-on bag,” Daniel Velez, the Transportation Security Administration’s spokesman for New England, advised the Herald.
The twentieth discover of the 12 months got here early Tuesday morning when a petty officer of the U.S. Coast Guard went by safety with a completely loaded 9mm pistol in her diaper bag.
Gun findings actually solely dropped within the first pandemic 12 months, when TSA brokers at Logan International discovered solely 11 in 2020. But the subsequent 12 months, the carry-on gun numbers returned to a relative normalcy by matching 2019 at 18, in keeping with a chart launched by the TSA.
In complete, 28 firearms have been detected in airport safety within the TSA’s New England area.
In addition to the 20 at Logan, three weapons have been discovered at Rhode Island T. F. Green International in Warwick, two at Connecticut’s Bradley International close to Hartford, two at Bangor International in Maine and one at Manchester-Boston Regional in New Hampshire.
On Sunday, TSA brokers at Logan additionally discovered a set of six pen-sized throwing knives in a carry-on bag.
“Even small knives/cool looking knives like these need to be properly sheathed and checked,” Velez tweeted Tuesday. “The Maine resident was eventually cleared to continue to Miami…minus the knives.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”