MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — TSA officers at Pittsburgh International Airport stopped a Connellsville man from taking a loaded handgun onto an airplane at Pittsburgh International Airport yesterday.

The man told TSA officers he forgot he had a .380 caliber handgun with him when he was stopped at the checkpoint. A TSA officer who was working at a checkpoint X-ray machine’s monitor spotted the weapon was in the man’s carry-on bag.

Allegheny County police confiscated the weapon after they were contacted by the TSA. So Far this year there have been nine guns that have been confiscated at Pittsburgh International Checkpoints.