From TSA.gov:

"Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected twice as many firearms per million passengers screened at airport security checkpoints nationwide in 2020 compared to 2019, and at a significantly higher rate than any other year since the agency’s inception. Throughout 2020, TSA caught approximately 10 firearms per million passengers screened as compared to about 5 firearms per million passengers screened in 2019.

TSA officers discovered a total of 3,257 firearms on passengers or in their carry-on bags at checkpoints, although total passengers screened in 2020 fell by 500 million versus 2019 due to the pandemic. Of those firearms caught in 2020, about 83 percent were loaded. In 2019, TSA officers stopped a record 4,432 firearms, of which 87 percent were loaded."

The TSA caught over 2800 LOADED firearms on passengers or in their carry-on bags. Think about that in this day of right-wing white supremacist insurrectionists.

It's so easy to throw stones at the government...but - with the exception of ICE (who I think should be disbanded immediately) - and the TSA workers are every bit as human and fallible as you and me...

...but in the aggregate, they do much more good than harm. There's always room for improvement, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.