The contents of a passenger, returning from a Gulf country, shocked officers at a US airport.
Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport detected a missile launcher in a man's checked luggage early morning on July 29, a statement issued by the TSA said.
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TSA officers immediately contacted airport police who tracked down the traveler and detained him for questioning. The man, a resident of Jacksonville, Texas, told officials that he was an active military personnel traveling home from Kuwait and he wanted to keep the missile launcher as a souvenir.
Military weapons are not permitted in checked or carry-on bags.
Fortunately the item was not a live device.
It was confiscated and handed over to the state fire marshal for safe disposal. The man was permitted to catch his flight.
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