How? Easy. TSA is incompetent and a charade.txcharvel wrote: ..., namely how did TSA let this through. Imagine what a loaded magazine looks like on an x-ray machine!
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TSA Chief Out After Agents Fail 95 Percent of Airport Breach Tests
95%.
Me, I probably would have shrugged, flown to my destination, and either mailed the magazine back or more likely put it in my checked baggage for the rest of the trip.