Jacksonville could see a record number of gun seizures at its security checkpoint by the time 2022 ends if numbers for the first half of this year are any indication, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
As flights ramped up in the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic amid loosened mask restrictions, TSA agents seized 34 guns at Jacksonville International Airport from Jan. 1 to June 30.
Keep that going and the 50 gun seizures in 2019 could be surpassed by the winter holidays, TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz said. That was a record number in the last full year of flights before the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said.
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