I once applied for a TSA job. The application process was over a year long.
"TSA is useless."
Yeah... about that...
"TSA officers caught 6,301 firearms at checkpoints this year as of Friday, such as in carry-on bags. About 88% of the firearms were loaded, the administration said."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/17/us/tsa-record-firearms-airport-checkpoints/index.html
@Longbowgun the year this nbc article came out about the 95% fail rate they confiscated 2,653 guns total out of 53,060 (theoretically). What I’m interested in is if that number is roughly unmoved their success rate has slightly more than doubled from 5% to ~12%. However if their success rate hasn’t actually improved in the 7 years since this article then they may have missed as many as 119,719. We need access to way more variables than they provided before we can say.
@deadweirdo Agreed. But, imagine the "deterrence factor" wasn't there, either... Guns are actually easy to spot on the scanner (part of the testing in the application process is a simulation of using the scanner).
Hand searching each carry-on would be labor intensive... But, scanning and hand searching really should be the way it's done.