Quote Originally Posted by Alpha2 View Post
I had a business associate lose his gun/ammo at DIA when he'd forgotten that he'd put his carry gun in his backpack so as not to leave it in his car when valet parking. Yep, DIA found it, cost him 7 grand to resolve, this has been a couple of years ago. He flies a lot. That seems to be a common denominator in these cases...and YES the feds know it. They pretend to be shocked at how often this happens, but they actually know that many of the free citizens of the late USA carry all of the time, and will occasionally forget what they have on board. I had a mag full of 9mm hollowpoints follow me to Chicago once. Nobody noticed, but I wasn't about to try to fool them twice. I actually don't know how I got it back home, but I imagine I probably had my sister-in-law send it back to me sans ammo.
The TSA actually has a blog where they publish their "findings"...

http://blog.tsa.gov/

There is also plenty of statistics and some reports about particularly "odd" events.

Richard