Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials at Idaho’s Boise Airport discovered not one but two loaded firearms just 10 minutes apart this week.
Screeners made the first seizure at 5:40 a.m. on Tuesday, June 10, uncovering the weapon in a passenger’s carry-on bag. A second loaded gun was found in another passenger’s carry-on just moments later.
According to TSA, the first traveler said that they forgot the gun was inside their bag, while the second passenger told authorities he was extremely sorry he left the firearm in his bag.
“I’m very proud of our TSA officers at Boise for detecting the two firearms in such a short amount of time,” James Spies, TSA Federal Security Director for Idaho, said in a statement.
“Passengers carrying their firearms can be a danger to other travelers. The proper way to transport a firearm is in checked baggage. The firearm must be unloaded, packed in a hard-sided case, and declared at the airline check-in counter.”
TSA officers have already discovered 15 firearms at Boise Airport this year. The agency uncovered a total of 6,678 firearms at airport security checkpoints nationwide in 2024, a slight decrease from the 6,737 firearms seized in 2023.
Nonetheless, the vast majority of those weapons—approximately 94 percent—were loaded.
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