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Rate of Firearms Seized at Airports Doubled in 2020, TSA Says
The TSA revealed Tuesday that the rate of firearms detected at airport security checkpoints doubled in 2020.
The TSA revealed Tuesday that the rate of firearms detected at airport security checkpoints doubled in 2020.
No federal agency has been hit harder by COVID-19 than the TSA, whose employee have close contact with the public.
House Democrats are urging the TSA to require masks for travelers at airport security checkpoints to protect agency employees and others.
No federal agency has been more impacted by the coronavirus than the TSA.
The TSA is moving forward with a plan to administer temperature screenings at about a dozen airports as soon as net week.
The TSA said Thursday it will begin requiring employees to wear “facial protection” at screening checkpoints, more than two months after the outbreak in the U.S.
A customs agent at Miami International Airport has become the fourth TSA employee to die from the coronavirus.
A TSA screener at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the third employee from the agency to die from the coronavirus.