As the holiday travel rush begins, the Transportation Security Administration continues to write up, and in some cases arrest, numerous travelers attempting to board planes with guns.
Firearms are forbidden from carry-on luggage and must be transported in a locked, hard-sided container as checked luggage. Despite this, travelers continue to, by accident or design, bring handguns with them to TSA security checkpoints.
Two D.C.-area incidents on Friday illustrate the issue.
At Richmond International Airport, a Fredericksburg woman’s unloaded .380 handgun set off an alarm going through the security x-ray machine. Airport police confiscated the firearm and wrote up the woman on a weapons violation.