Though people brought more firearms through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints throughout New England last year, fewer passengers at Boston Logan International Airport tried to bring guns through — a happy trend TSA officials hope will continue.
TSA detected 52 firearms throughout the nine New England airports in 2023, five more than the previous record of 47 set in 2022. A grand total of 6,737 firearms were detected at airports across the country, and TSA’s data shows that number has steadily increased year after year.
The only New England airport to see fewer firearms being brought in was Boston Logan, at 18 guns detected; in 2022, an all-time high of 31 firearms were intercepted at the Boston airport.
