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The 5 most popular guns found this year at TSA airport checkpoints
TransportDespite the focus on the Transportation Security Administration’s proposed and then scuttled plan allowing on board tiny knives and novelty sporting goods equipment, the agency has been busy as usual in 2013 finding loaded weapons and other banned items at airport checkpoints across the United States. The first three months of this year saw an [...]
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Wyndham and Best Western get blasted online for offering discounts to NRA members
RoomsNational Rifle Assn. critics are blasting two of the world’s biggest hotel companies because they give discounts to NRA members. A global advocacy site, Avvaz.com, has urged its followers to go on Facebook and sound off against Best Western International and Wyndham Hotel Group for affiliating with the NRA. (Avvaz means “voice” in several European, [...]
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Confiscated guns at U.S. airports will hit 1,500 mark before year’s end, highest ever
TransportTravelers in the United States are trying to bring more loaded weapons than ever onto airplanes. On average, four travelers per day are caught by Transportation and Security Administration agents attempting to pass through security with a weapon – and more than three out of four of these guns are loaded. As of Friday, December 14 [...]
