TSA reports a decrease in guns seized at NYC area airports, with 42 guns detected in 2024 compared to 51 in 2023.

Let’s fly the gun-free skies. Travelers tried slipping more than 6,600 guns past Transportation Security Administration agents last year — with 41 of those firearms found in carry-ons of those passing through LaGuardia,

The TSA team at Newark set a record for the most guns intercepted at our checkpoints in a single year,” said Thomas Carter, TSA’s federal security director for New Jersey.