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That somebody couldn't, who wanted to do something illegal or wrong, couldn't 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-jackson's general manager testified to a congressional committee the real danger the gun-returning exposed is the th...

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-jackson's 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 states. so now we have a greater insider threat. >> reporter: atlanta is moving towards full airpor...

Hear them say we have 54,000 employees at l.a.x. we can't 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. >> it's 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 will say that's probably the way it happened. so protecting these airplanes and airports is cruci...

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 couldn't who wanted to do something illegal or wrong, couldn't make that happen. >> reporter: what happened in atlanta, is causing ...

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 we've 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 couldn't who wanted to do something illegal or wrong, couldn't make that happen. >> reporter: what happened in atlanta is causing a reaction at airports across th...