It's the 14th gun confiscated at Newark Liberty International Airport checkpoints this year.
after he was caught with a loaded handgun in a carry-on bag at a security checkpoint, authorities said.
The man from Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, is the third person arrested this month with a gun in a carry-on bag at Newark airport, theThe 9 mm handgun confiscated by TSA agents Thursday was loaded with 13 bullets, including one in the chamber, the federal agency said.The gun was the 14th caught at the airport’s checkpoints this year, officials said. That ties the record for the most guns confiscated at Newark in a single year, with another full month still remaining in 2022.
“Getting caught with and arrested for carrying a loaded gun at our airport means this individual had a pretty bad Thanksgiving,” Thomas Carter, TSA’s federal security director for New Jersey, said in a statement. In addition to criminal charges, the man arrested Thursday faces a stiff federal financial civil penalty that could run into thousands of dollars, Carter added.
Passengers are permitted to travel with firearms only in checked baggage if they are properly packaged and declared at the airline ticket counter, federal officials said. Firearms must be unloaded, packed in a hard-sided locked case and packed separately from ammunition.Last year, TSA officers detected 5,972 guns at security checkpoints nationwide and 86% of them were loaded, officials said.
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