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Old Oct 8, 2013, 8:45 am
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Originally Posted by saulblum
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...g=4844,6538112

In 1985, screeners found nearly 1500 guns in the first half of the year.

That's nearly twice the rate of gun finds by the TSA, and it was with lowly 1980's metal detector and x-ray technology.
Although, as the article notes, this was in the days when you could go to the gate without being a passenger - a lot of those people caught were folks who weren't flying, and might be more likely to forget that they were armed, I guess.
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