The number of guns Transportation Security Administration officers confiscated at Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh airports dropped slightly in 2024, officials announced Wednesday.

TSA stopped 42 handguns at Pittsburgh International Airport’s security checkpoint last year, down from 44 in 2023, spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.

Pittsburgh accounted for nearly half of all guns TSA officers confiscated in Pennsylvania. Officials confiscated 97 handguns at airport-security checkpoints throughout the state in 2024, year-end numbers show. The 2023 total was 103.

More guns also were stopped in Pittsburgh than Philadelphia in 2024, data shows. TSA officers stopped 40 guns at Philadelphia International Airport last year, compared to Pittsburgh’s 42.

The last time Pittsburgh exceeded Philadelphia’s totals was 2019, when 35 guns were confiscated in Pittsburgh, compared to 20 in Philadelphia, data shows.

“It was good to see fewer people bringing their guns to our checkpoints in 2024,” said Gerardo Spero, TSA’s federal security director for Pennsylvania. “However, it continued to be disappointing to see individuals who were still bringing their firearms to our security checkpoints.”

Passengers trying to bring guns onto flights have kept TSA busy outside Pennsylvania.

The agency detected 6,678 firearms at 277 different airport checkpoints throughout the U.S. in 2024, Farbstein said. That’s also down, from a total of 6,737 intercepted firearms a year earlier.

The nationwide numbers have grown dramatically in recent years. In 2008, by comparison, 926 guns were confiscated at TSA checkpoints nationwide, data shows.

About 94% of guns that TSA officers intercept are loaded, officials said.

The busiest security checkpoint in 2024 was in Georgia, data shows. TSA officers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport confiscated 440 guns in 2024. Dallas accounted for the second-highest number — 390.