(Photo Courtesy of TSA) 

(Moon Twp., Pa.) An Ohio man was stopped with a loaded 9 mm handgun in his backpack Tuesday at Pittsburgh International Airport. Transportation Security Administration officers spotted the gun loaded with seven bullets in the checkpoint X-ray machine.

TSA officers alerted Allegheny County police who confiscated the gun and detained the man for questioning.

Travelers are not permitted to carry their guns onto airplanes, however, passengers are allowed to transport their firearms as checked baggage if they are properly packed and declared at their airline ticket counter.

This is the 19th handgun stopped at a checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport this year.