No, they sell some of it to Pennsylvania, which then auctions it off for a profit. When I found out about it, I did some digging and found the government email address of the official in charge of PA's program (not too hard to do). He was indignant that I asked him why PA was acting as TSA's fence, and after a couple of nasty exchanges, he blew me off.
Pennsylvania Sells Confiscated TSA Items Online
Pa. starts online TSA Surplus auction
Like everything else in government, it's a damned racket!
Ah so the greedy government bosses won’t even let the poor rank and file goons have it. The bastards!
I don’t know why I’ve never though of this before.
The only thing the government is good at, graft and racketeering. Cha-ching.