[1]For Once, the TSA Is Right by Joe Setyon:

[1]For Once, the TSA Is Right by Joe Setyon:

ROBERT GALBRAITH/REUTERS/Newscom
A passenger sneaked a firearm through airport security in Atlanta
earlier this month before flying with it to Tokyo. This has
attracted a lot of media attention, with [2]CNN, [3]Time, [4]CBS,
[5]The Hill, [6]The Washington Post, and others publishing write-ups
of the incident.
…
So is the shutdown making airports less safe? Was it the stalemate
in Washington, D.C., that allowed someone to slip a gun past TSA
screeners?
The short answer: probably not. The story about the firearm appears
to have been [7]first reported by WSB-TV, an ABC affiliate based in
the Atlanta area. On January 2, a man boarded his Delta flight to
Japan with a firearm. Once he landed, he informed Delta workers that
he had a gun. Delta in turn informed the TSA, who said in a
statement that "standard procedures were not followed."
The TSA insists the shutdown had nothing to do with the incident.
"The perception that this might have occurred as a result of the
partial government shutdown would be false," the agency said in a
statement to the press. "In fact, the national callout percentages
were exactly the same for Wed, 1/2/19 and Wed, 1/3/18 (when there
was no shutdown)-5%," an agency spokesperson added in an email to
Reason.
In other words, this wasn't the shutdown; it was just normal TSA
incompetence.
Sounds plausible to me. The TSA has a pretty bad track record when
it comes to identifying items that could actually pose a threat. A
2015 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigation, for
instance, [8]revealed that in 67 out of 70 cases, undercover
investigators succeeded in smuggling weapons or explosives through
security.

Security theater, indeed.
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My original entry is here: [9]For Once, the TSA Is Right. It posted
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 14:00:41 +0000.
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References

1. https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/14/for-once-the-tsa-is-right?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+reason/HitandRun+(Reason+Online+-+Hit+&+Run+Blog)
2. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/us/tsa-gun-flight/index.html
3. http://time.com/5501904/tsa-gun-screening-shutdown/
4. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/passenger-gets-gun-past-atlanta-airport-screeners-flies-with-it-to-tokyo/
5. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/425139-traveler-carried-firearm-through-tsa-checkpoint-at-atlanta
6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/01/14/passenger-with-gun-made-it-through-tsa-checkpoint-atlanta-onto-delta-flight/?utm_term=.3026d0f93c3a
7. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/traveler-carries-gun-from-atlanta-to-japan-after-going-through-airport-screening/903900169
8. https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find-widespread-security-failures/story?id=31434881
9. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=2563