(MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa.) An Aliquippa man was stopped going through a TSA Security Checkpoint this week at Pittsburgh International Airport after TSA Agents spotted a loaded 9mm handgun on a checkpoint X-ray machine’s monitor. Officers immediately alerted Allegheny County Police. The weapon was loaded with five bullets and one of the bullets was in the chamber of the gun ready to be fired.
After Allegheny County Police questioned the man the gun was confiscated, and he now faces federal civil penalties. This was the 14th gun that has been found at a security checkpoint in the airport this year.