Rhode Island

Loaded Gun Found in Backpack at TF Green Checkpoint

It was the second time this year that a gun was spotted at the Rhode Island airport's security checkpoint

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CHICAGO, IL – JUNE 02: A sign directs travelers to a security checkpoint staffed by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers at O’Hare Airport on June 2, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. The Department of Homeland Security said that the acting head of the TSA would be replaced following a report that airport screeners failed to detect explosives and weapons in nearly all of the tests that an undercover team conducted at airports around the country. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The Transportation Security Administration says its officers found a loaded gun in a man's backpack at Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport.

The agency in a statement said the .45 caliber handgun with nine bullets was spotted Monday by a security checkpoint X-ray machine. TSA officers alerted airport police, who confiscated the gun and questioned the Cranston man before releasing him.

The man, whose name was not made public, told officials that he forgot he had the gun with him.

It was the second time this year a gun has been spotted at a T.F. Green security checkpoint.

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