It’s more than just a crime of fashion. Gun-toting city criminals are strapped in more ways than one these days, increasingly stowing their illegal firearms in unsightly fanny packs, police sources ...

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BALTIMORE - Last year, 35 guns were caught going through TSA checkpoints at BWI Airport. According to TSA officials, carrying guns to security checkpoints could lead to a federal civil penalty up to ...

The Transportation Security Administration has seen a spike in the number of guns brought to security checkpoints at Reagan National and Dulles International airports. ”You can not carry your firearm ...

Agents at the Transportation Security Administration stopped a record 6,737 guns at airport checkpoints last year — 93% of which were loaded. The number is an uptick from the 6,542 firearms stopped in ...

John R. Lott Jr., a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of the newly released "The Bias Against Guns" (Regnery, 2003). Banning guns from schools seems the obvious way ...