https://www.khon2.com/local-news/greatest-number-of-firearms-found-at-hnl-in-2023/

math is hard

HONOLULU (KHON) — Hawaii officers of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have detected and recovered the most firearms from travelers’ carry-on luggage in 2023.

Nationwide, a total of 6,737 firearms were recovered from 265 airports in 2023, with five of them being discovered in Hawaiian airports.

Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL), the largest and busiest airport in the islands, accounted for three firearms, with Kahului Airport (OGG) and Kona International (KOA) each adding one discovery of their own.
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The firearm found at OGG was the first discovery since 2018.

Reports said all discoveries were made “during routine X-ray screening of carry-on property.”

Approximately 858 million travelers were screened through TSA in 2023. The TSA said they “discovered one firearm for every 127,356 travelers screened.”

At HNL, officers screened a total of 9,841,600 travelers, with one firearm being found every 3,280,533.

The person who wrote the web article did not understand, or tried to sensationalize the story.
The anchor on the video clip got it right.
She said hnl was way below national average.

The by line credits Emily Cervantes.

Looks like they chose the next target

Looks like they chose the next target

They figured hawaii is an easy target.  Nobody in hawaii's govt. is gonna fight for us.

According to reports, the TSA missed 70%-90% of "fake" guns sent through security checkpoints as tests to evaluate screening effectiveness.

If that result carries through to travelers actually carrying loaded firearms in carryon baggage, TSA is catching about 1/10th to 1/3rd of loaded guns going through their security checkpoints.

Something to keep in mind when TSA brags about catching more than 6.7K firearms in 2023.

If we went with the more conservative test number, 6,737 is 30% of 22,457, leaving 15,720 firearms making it onto commercial flights undetected.

After doing a web search for more recent data, it looks like the TSA/WH Administration has been busy removing these reports.  Forbes published the 70% result in 2017, and many articles and videos using that Forbes report contains a broken web link.  Hmmmm....