Record-Setting Pace Of Seized Weapons At Pittsburgh Airport Continues

MOON TOWNSHIP, PA — Transportation Security Administration officers confiscated another loaded gun at the Pittsburgh International Airport security checkpoint Saturday, raising the record-setting number of weapons seizures this year to 40.

A TSA release said officers stopped an unidentified Gibsonia man from bringing a.380 caliber handgun with a bullet in the chamber onto a flight.

“Incidents such as this are dangerous. They disrupt our security screening operations and cause delays for other law-abiding travelers who just want to get on their flight to travel during the Thanksgiving holiday period," said Karen Keys-Turner, the TSA’s federal security director for the airport.

“This man now faces a federal civil penalty that could cost him thousands of dollars.”

The previous record setting year was 2019, when 35 guns were confiscated. That record was broken last month.