TSA Intercepts Gun At Pittsburgh International Airport Checkpoint

MOON TOWNSHIP, PA— Transportation Administration Security Administration officers on Sunday prevented a local man from carrying a 9mm handgun through a Pittsburgh International Airport security checkpoint.

The incident occurred on the busiest day in the agency's 22-year history, when the TSA topped three million screenings nationally for the first time.

The unloaded firearm was in the man's bag. When it was detected, Allegheny County police confiscated the weapon.

Because the weapon was not loaded and in a locked hard-sided case as it was supposed to be, the man "was permitted to properly check the firearm as checked baggage," Karen Keys-Turner, TSA federal security director for the airport said in a release. "However, when our officers detect a firearm at a checkpoint, it delays the passengers in that lane until the situation is resolved."