Very OT but just as an anecdote:

I sometimes fly out of ALS with it's 3 times a day service on ZK to DEN.

It's a tiny rural outstation with maybe 10 passengers on a busy flight, but normally single figures.

Whilst the TSA do have a scanner for hand luggage, hold luggage is fingertip searched, in the check in area on a table in front of you, and swabs taken for analysis.

I don't know if ALS is unique in this respect but my gut feeling is there are probably a few other small towns with essential air service where things are still done this way.

I did think though that HVR probably isn't that far from you!