[1]For Once, the TSA Is Right by Joe Setyon:

     ROBERT GALBRAITH/REUTERS/Newscom
     A passenger sneaked a firearm through airport security in Atlanta
     earlier this month before flying with it to Tokyo. This has
     attracted a lot of media attention, with [2]CNN, [3]Time, [4]CBS,
     [5]The Hill, [6]The Washington Post, and others publishing write-ups
     of the incident.
     …
     So is the shutdown making airports less safe? Was it the stalemate
     in Washington, D.C., that allowed someone to slip a gun past TSA
     screeners?
     The short answer: probably not. The story about the firearm appears
     to have been [7]first reported by WSB-TV, an ABC affiliate based in
     the Atlanta area. On January 2, a man boarded his Delta flight to
     Japan with a firearm. Once he landed, he informed Delta workers that
     he had a gun. Delta in turn informed the TSA, who said in a
     statement that "standard procedures were not followed."
     The TSA insists the shutdown had nothing to do with the incident.
     "The perception that this might have occurred as a result of the
     partial government shutdown would be false," the agency said in a
     statement to the press. "In fact, the national callout percentages
     were exactly the same for Wed, 1/2/19 and Wed, 1/3/18 (when there
     was no shutdown)-5%," an agency spokesperson added in an email to
     Reason.
     In other words, this wasn't the shutdown; it was just normal TSA
     incompetence.
     Sounds plausible to me. The TSA has a pretty bad track record when
     it comes to identifying items that could actually pose a threat. A
     2015 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigation, for
     instance, [8]revealed that in 67 out of 70 cases, undercover
     investigators succeeded in smuggling weapons or explosives through
     security.

   Security theater, indeed.
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   My original entry is here: [9]For Once, the TSA Is Right. It posted
   Sun, 24 Mar 2019 14:00:41 +0000.
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References

   1. https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/14/for-once-the-tsa-is-right?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+reason/HitandRun+(Reason+Online+-+Hit+&+Run+Blog)
   2. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/us/tsa-gun-flight/index.html
   3. http://time.com/5501904/tsa-gun-screening-shutdown/
   4. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/passenger-gets-gun-past-atlanta-airport-screeners-flies-with-it-to-tokyo/
   5. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/425139-traveler-carried-firearm-through-tsa-checkpoint-at-atlanta
   6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/01/14/passenger-with-gun-made-it-through-tsa-checkpoint-atlanta-onto-delta-flight/?utm_term=.3026d0f93c3a
   7. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/traveler-carries-gun-from-atlanta-to-japan-after-going-through-airport-screening/903900169
   8. https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find-widespread-security-failures/story?id=31434881
   9. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=2563