For guns discovered at security checkpoints from member station w a b e in atlanta lisa hagen reports atlanta tsa officers say they found a record breaking thirty guns passenger carry ons last month the city's airport held the previous record from two thousand sixteen as well that was twenty seven guns and those are national records tsa officials say there's been a steady increase in the number of guns brought to check points in atlanta and across the country so far this year more than seventeen hundred have been discovered nationwide unloaded guns locked in a hard case and packed separately from ammunition are permitted in checked luggage for npr news i'm lisa hagan in atlanta from his waylon officials have.