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SALT LAKE CITY — For the second time in a week, a loaded gun was discovered in a carry-on bag at the Salt Lake City International Airport.
Monday, a man headed to the Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C. Airport was arrested after screeners from the Transportation Security Administration found a 9 MM Ruger LC9 handgun in the man's carry-on bag loaded with seven rounds of ammunition and one round in the chamber, according to a statement from the TSA.
TSA screeners also found an additional magazine with seven more rounds.
There's really no excuse for bringing a loaded gun to the airport.
–David Corsack
The 42-year-old man was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of a weapons violation, a class A misdemeanor.
The incident comes less than a week after Salt Lake Airport police arrested an Atlanta-bound man after a loaded .380 caliber Kel-Tec pistol was discovered in his carry-on bag.
Salt Lake Airport spokesman David Corsack did not know if the man arrested in the latest incident gave police an explanation for the weapon, but noted, "What excuse could you possibly give?"
"There's really no excuse for bringing a loaded gun to the airport," he said.
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