Transportation Security Administration

Trying to bring a gun onto a plane seems crazy.

And yet, it happens with startling frequency, about five times a day according to new stats on the Transportation Security Administration's blog.

In 2013, the TSA discovered 1,813 firearms at their checkpoints. Eighty-one percent were loaded. That's up from 1,556 confiscations in 2012.

Here are just a few of the stories:

In one single year, 111 people in Atlanta tried to get on a plane with a gun.