Somebody apparently thinks that far too many travelers in America have started trying to get on planes with loaded guns.

TSA officers have found 6,301 firearms in carry-on bags so far this year, surpassing the previous record of 5,972 detected in 2021. The numbers have been increasing steadily over the last decade; in 2012, 1,549 firearms were detected at security checkpoints.

Eighty-eight percent of the guns found this year were loaded, the TSA said.

Firearm possession laws vary by location, but guns are never allowed in carry-on bags at any airport security checkpoint, even if a passenger has a concealed-weapon permit.

The solution proposed is as dumb as the people carrying a loaded gun into a security checkpoint.

The TSA said Friday it’s raising the maximum fine to $14,950. Previously it was $13,910.

Adding 8% as a penalty is barely an adjustment for inflation. I’ve seen cartons of milk go up in cost faster.

What the TSA should do is revoke the permit to carry a gun from those who aren’t able to carry one safely. Isn’t that the real purpose of a safety screening anyway, to make everyone safer?

It’s a less complicated story than it probably seems from the headlines.

A 35-year-old Israeli citizen living in the United States was one of seven suspects who has been charged by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) with 16 counts of conspiracy to defraud the US, money laundering on behalf of the Russian government and smuggling ammunition and weapon components to Moscow.

The accused, and his Russian wife, allegedly used an Etsy store with overt sympathy messages for Ukraine… to smuggle American military technology into Russia for killing Ukrainians.

The unassuming couple also outwardly sympathized with Ukraine throughout the 10-month war. Brayman, who lists Kyiv as his hometown on Facebook, shared a video on the site of a Ukrainian dance group…

Here’s the kind of portrait he posted that definitely screams suburban America small craft store owner.

Ok, I’m just going to throw out for the sake of a FSB long-game argument he wasn’t actually born in Ukraine and probably lied to get Israeli citizenship. “Vacation” to Israel may even have been to meet his FSB handlers. Allowing his wife to be Russian in the open would then suggest the FSB were being stingy/lazy.

But what do I know? I’ve really never been into crafting.

A recently filed lawsuit exposes the Facebook profit model, once again, this time in Ethiopia.

Amare’s son, researcher Abrham Amare, appealed to Facebook to have the posts removed but heard nothing back for weeks. Eight days after his father’s murder, Abrham received a response from Facebook: One of the posts targeting his father, shared by a page with more than 50,000 followers, had been removed.

“I hold Facebook personally responsible for my father’s murder,” he says.