Monroeville woman stopped with loaded gun at Pittsburgh International Airport checkpoint

MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A Monroeville woman was stopped with a loaded handgun Thursday night at a Pittsburgh International Airport security checkpoint. It was the second loaded gun stopped from being carried on to the plane in one day.

Transportation Security Administration officers spotted the gun in the woman’s purse through the checkpoint’s X-ray machine. She told TSA officers that she forgot she had the loaded gun in her purse.

Allegheny County police were called, and confiscated the gun.

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The first gun TSA officers stopped Thursday was detected 12 hours earlier.

A 62-year-old woman from Texas was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers Thursday with a .22 caliber handgun with a bullet in the chamber.

It marked the fifth and sixth guns caught by TSA officers so far this month, increasing the total number to seven caught so far this year.

TSA officers at the airport detected 21 guns at the airport’s checkpoints last year.

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