I am of the opinion that "increased security measures" at airports are a sham; that, in an effort to look like something's changed, they're doing a lot of things that grossly inconvenience law-abiding folks…but not a damned thing that will prevent a terrorist from boarding with weaponry.
BBC News is reporting that security screeners at LAX recently disarmed a G.I. Joe doll, confiscating a two-inch plastic rifle as a possible weapon. I am not making this up. Click on the link if you don't believe me.
This outdoes an incident earlier this year at an airport in Abu Dhabi. There, as the BBC News then reported, officials disarmed the guy who plays the cowboy in the Village People for possession of his stage prop pistol. They actually threw him in jail…which is perhaps where he and his co-stars belong, though not for that.