“TSA found with metal detectors nearly 7,000 firearms at airports last year — an all-time high.”
What PolitiFact found
In 2023, the Transportation Security Administration reported seizing 6,737 firearms at airport checkpoints, the most in the agency’s 23-year history.
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In short
Chuck Schumer (Senate Majority Leader, D-N.Y.) made this claim around 29 January 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 February 2024, 24 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Chuck Schumer has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- schumer.senate.govhttps://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-reveals-key-fed-provision-…
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