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That somebody couldnt, who wanted to do something illegal or wrong, couldnt make that happen. >> reporter: what happened in atlanta is causing a reaction at airports across the country. and you can see why. these are guns. guns smuggled on to as many as 20 flights by one delta air line baggage handler. that baggage handler took the guns to work in a backpack, which was never screened. motive for the crime, pure profit. selling the guns in northeast city. but atlanta hartsfield-jacksons general m...

That baggage handler took the guns to work in a backpack which was never screened. motive for crime, pure profit selling the guns in northeast cities. but atlanta hartsfield-jacksons general manager, miguel sadwell, testified to a congressional committee the real danger the gun running exposed is the threat of potential terrorism. >> this-in the last six months, for example, we have started to see that people have been recruited to engage in terrorist acts people being recruited from the united ...

Hear them say we have 54,000 employees at l.a.x. we cant because of the sheer volume screen them all. i stand in line at the airport. i watch people go through, walk ahead of the tsa line, show their badge and walk right through. >> its a mistake. and, you know, there was the famous lockerbie bombing in 1988 which is a dispute until this day whether the bomb was put on in malta or in london by a baggage handler. you get arguments on both sides. the fbi will deny it. people in scotland the police...

Employees also face background checks yearly updates. and a system built around everyone watching out for anyone who might seem suspicious. but the chief admits nothing is fool proof. >> at airports across the country, we have not really seen anything that could prevent what atlanta went through, which was guns being smuggled on to airports. >> i agree. i agree. in any airport throughout the united states and here also there is never a 100% guarantee that somebody couldnt who wanted to do someth...

Employees also face background checks yearly updates, and a system built around everyone watching out for anyone who might seem suspicious. but chief gannon admits nothing is foolproof. as weve been at airports across the country, we have not seen anything like what atlanta went through, guns being smuggle onto airplanes. >> i agree. any airport throughout the united states and here also there is never a 100% guarantee that somebody couldnt who wanted to do something illegal or wrong, couldnt ma...

Compartment is a loaded ak-47 in a duffel bag. thats one of 18 guns transported illegally from hasn atlanta to new york. two former employees shuttled 153 guns from atlanta to new york over the last eight months. a baggage handler is accused of using his airport security badge to handoff guns to this smuggler, mark henry, in an airport bathroom. harvey is charged with entering an airport area in violation of security requirements. henry is charged with felony crimes of criminal possession of wea...

Police there trying to protect the protesters? >> reporter: well amazinglamazid ive been to the protests and they have chanted much worse, calling them killers, asking how many kids they killed today to try to get under their skin. they clearly have the last couple of days. the chabtss are somewhat less but calling them racist is not going to set well. >> and they are side by side as the police are charged with protecting those people. miguel, thank you very much. well check back in with him as ...

Apartment door, can shoot through a bulletproof vest. >> reporter: prosecutors say henry had a lifetime of free companion flights because his mother was also a longstanding delta employee. he used them to transport the weapons. but cops say henry was at it for years in brooklyn. >> we know his gun-smuggling went back to 1991. this person literally has facilitated genocide on the brooklyn streets. >> reporter: authorities pored over surveillance video showing henry allegedly carrying a full backp...

>> jonathan gilliam, a former air marshall, also a former fbi special agent with the joint terrorism task force. when you read the details of what the authorities say happened here, its pretty stunning. one of these guys worked for delta airlines as a baggage handler, had the ability to come and go into deltas secure facilities. wee hand him the backpack in a rest room, according to the authorities, and this guy would get on a plane with a backpack full of guns. >> the problem with security espe...

York. five men are under arrest. more than 150 handguns and assault rifles have been confiscated. investigators say a former delta airlines employee seen on surveillance video was able to sneak the guns on to at least 20 flights. the weapons were passed to him by a delta baggage handler in a bathroom, bypassing airport security. >> they put guns on the plane this time. they could easily have put a bomb on one of those planes. >> some of the guns were loaded. the men were caught when they tried t...