TSA fines for bringing gun to TSA checkpoints

[johndoe3]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/tsa-orders-t ... o-airports

TSA announced that travelers inadvertently bringing a gun through a TSA airport checkpoint paid a total of $1.45 million in civil fines in 2017. The fines were levied against ~4000 travelers in 2017.

Travelers caught with guns at airports last year were ordered to pay approximately $1.45 million in civil penalties by the Transportation Security Administration, according to a report.

The TSA imposed the fines after filing more than 4,000 actions against gun-carrying travelers, The Washington Post reports.

TSA has the authority to assess civil penalties of up to $13,000 for travelers who bring weapons to airports. A typical first offense for carrying a handgun into a checkpoint is $3,900.

Violators are also subject to criminal charges.

[poikilotrm]

Remember that bit about excessive fines in the Constitution?

[johndoe3]

8th Amendment of the Bill of Rights:

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Not too many people talk about the 8th Amendment. My guess it's because of the collusion of the 3 branches of government, where the legislature makes the law and fines, and the Executive and Court says: "sounds OK to me."

In other words, the 8th Amendment isn't much of a check on the government, where excessive fines are the norm, excessive punishments are the norm, and excessive bail the norm.

[doubloon]

TSA Year in Review: Record Amount Of Firearms Discovered In 2017

https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2018/01/29/tsa ... vered-2017

And not a single terrorist.

Only harassing citizens, 16% of which carry empty weapons and 65% aren't combat ready.

771.5 million (771,556,886) passengers traveled securely through 440 federalized airports in 2017. That’s over 2 million travelers a day!
A record setting 3,957, firearms were discovered in carry-on bags at checkpoints across the country, averaging 76.1 firearms per week. That’s an average of 10.8 firearms per day.
3,324 (84 percent) of the total firearms discovered were loaded.
1,378 (34.8 percent) of the total firearms discovered had a round chambered.
The most firearms discovered in one-month – a whopping 29 - were discovered in August at the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL).
Firearms were intercepted at a total of 239 airports.
There was a 16.7 percent (556 more) increase in firearm discoveries from 2016’s total of 3,391.

[fishman]

Why are so many people carrying with an empty chamber!? THAT is the true crime here.

[0101silent]

"You are either with us or you are with the Terrorists." George W. Bush

[T-Rex]

3,324 (84 percent) of the total firearms discovered were loaded.
1,378 (34.8 percent) of the total firearms discovered had a round chambered.

If there isn't a round chambered, then the firearm isn't loaded

Locked AND Loaded, because

[doubloon]

3,324 (84 percent) of the total firearms discovered were loaded.
1,378 (34.8 percent) of the total firearms discovered had a round chambered.

If there isn't a round chambered, then the firearm isn't loaded

Locked AND Loaded, because

I won't argue that point.

[T-Rex]

I won't argue that point.

Wasn't towards you doubloon, but whomever wrote those stats.