Firearms found at TSA checkpoints

American comic-book sales and TSA firearm interceptions, both climbing for nearly fifteen years. Two completely unrelated American counts: one a print-and-digital reading category, one a security-screening statistic, sharing the same upward path.

US comic and graphic-novel revenue grew from about 700 million dollars in 2009 to over 2 billion by 2022 as Marvel and DC graphic-novel runs, manga's mainstream breakthrough, and bookstore-channel expansion lifted the category. Firearms intercepted at TSA checkpoints grew from about 1,000 in 2009 to over 6,500 by 2022 as gun ownership rose, concealed-carry laws expanded, and a larger share of travellers were armed in their daily lives. Two completely unrelated lines sharing a window because the same fourteen years scaled both a reading category and a domestic firearms-ownership pattern.

Two completely unrelated American counts grew. The shelf and the security tray, both more populated.