Airline security, or a lack thereof, seems to be in the media on a weekly basis. Last week’s WAR Report noted how TSA is conducting a broad review of the nation’s air security system and is considering proposals that include lifting a post-9/11 ban on carry-on items. This week?s news reported how TSA is confiscating weapons and other dangerous weapons in record numbers.

Surrendering firearms is low in looking at other illicit weapons. For the past three years, approximately 14,000 weapons were captured as passengers passed security checkpoints. TSA commissioned a study by Deseret Morning News in Utah to look at these items being confiscated. The data also indicated that the small hub airports (airports that serve between 355,000 and 1.7 million passengers a year) attracted more passengers with these weapons — numbering 12.3 weapons per 1,000 people. The larger airports attracted 6.4 weapons per 1,000 people. Curiously, the nation’s smaller non-hub airports, those attracting fewer than 344,000 passengers a year, caught the most weapons, 15.1 per 1,000 passengers, according to the Deseret study.