RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says that it prevented a Virginia woman from carrying a loaded handgun onto a flight departing from Richmond International Airport.
The TSA said in a press release Sunday that the incident occurred Friday and involved a woman from Midlothian in Chesterfield County.
The agency said the gun was among her carry-on items and was detected by an X-ray machine. Police confiscated the handgun and cited the woman.
The agency did not identify her. The TSA says she faces a “stiff federal financial civil penalty” that can stretch into thousands of dollars.
The TSA says it detected more than 3,200 firearms on passengers or their carry-on bags at checkpoints across the country last year.
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