A New Jersey man was caught with a loaded gun inside his book bag at Newark Liberty International airport last week, authorities said.
On June 20, a TSA officer discovered a .45 caliber handgun in the bag of an Irvington resident as it passed through an x-ray machine at a Terminal A security checkpoint.Port Authority police escorted the man and his handgun out of the airport. He was not arrested because he had a New Jersey permit to carry the weapon, but authorities noted that he did miss his flight.
Authorities say the man now faces a stiff federal financial civil penalty for bringing a gun to a security checkpoint. The penalty for bringing a weapon to a TSA checkpoint can cost as much as $15,000, depending on the circumstances.According to TSA, guns can be transported on a flight if they are unloaded, packed in a locked, hard-sided case and declared to the airline. The airline will be sure that the gun travels with checked baggage in the belly of the plane, never in the cabin of the plane.
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