Loaded gun confiscated at Pittsburgh International Airport security checkpoint, 41st this year

Airport Gun Confinscated This firearm was intercepted by TSA officers at the PIT airport checkpoint on December 16. (TSA photo)

By Jess Shannon

Transportation Security Administration officers at Pittsburgh International Airport stopped a .25 caliber handgun at the security checkpoint on Monday.

The handgun, which was loaded with six bullets, was in a Washington County man’s backpack. Police confiscated the gun after the bag was removed from the X-ray machine.

Monday marked the 41st firearm that TSA officers have intercepted at Pittsburgh so far this year.

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