So TSAMgr or other screeners, is it me or should you maybe set the wands (and for that matter the magnodetecters) down a bit? I wondered if the magno's had been set up for more sensitive cuz of the recent trusted traveller thing. Since 9/11 I can count (until recently) on 1 hand the # of times I've had to go through secondary - & now it's every time cuz of the shoes (and rivets). Again, the same shoes that have gone through plenty of times & never beeped once.
The wands haven't been set higher, there just held closer to the body then they were before.
As for the WTMD, can't ask us because we don't set the machines. TSA chose a nation wide setting and had the company input it in all WTMD through out the country. The company has to change it or a select set of contract workers. But that only gets done with TSA higher ups backing off the setting.
I honestly haven't seen a increase in rings at my airport. We know our machines and know what we need to have them take off to get through with no problem.