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TSA caught passenger with gun-shaped knife: 'On the fence about bringing a knife to a gun fight'
By Alexandra Deabler
Published August 16, 2019
Look… in that man's bag! It’s a gun… no, it’s a knife… no, it’s both! And it’s not allowed in a carry-on!
Last week, a passenger traveling through Washington’s Paine Field airport tried to bring a knife, shaped like a gun, through a TSA security checkpoint.
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“Maybe this passenger was on the fence about bringing a knife to a gun fight,” the TSA quipped on its blog.
A passenger traveling through Washington’s Paine Field tried to bring a knife, shaped like a gun, through a TSA security checkpoint. (TSA)
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The 6-inch gun-shaped weapon was discovered on August 6 and taken from the passenger.
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More information about the passenger who tried to bring on the knife was not immediately available, but TSA revealed on its blog that during the week of August 5 – 11, they screened 17.7 million passengers, and the most common weapons they discovered were firearms. During that week, TSA found 77 firearms in carry-on bags, 66 of which were loaded and 28 had a round chambered.
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/tsa-passenger-gun-shaped-knife-washington