The incident comes one month after the TSA reported it had confiscated a record number of firearms at airport checkpoints this year.
A man accidentally discharged a weapon at a security screening area at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport on Saturday, according to the Transportation Security Administration, sending travelers into a panic and leading to a brief halt to departing flights, in a year in which the agency has been confiscating a record number of firearms at airport checkpoints. 4,495. That’s how many travelers the TSA has stopped at checkpoints for trying to sneak a firearm on board their flight in the first nine months of this year, which is the most the agency has recorded since it was founded.
