TSA officers at Logan Airport stop 2 passengers with loaded firearms

BOSTON — Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston’s Logan Airport caught two passengers with loaded firearms this week, officials announced Friday.

Officers conducting a security screening in Terminal B on Thursday detected a firearm in a man’s carry-on bag and alerted the Massachusetts State Police. Officials say the firearm was loaded with one round chambered and another eight rounds in a magazine.

State police confiscated the weapon, informed the Missouri man he would be receiving a citation in the mail, and cleared him to continue onto St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

Officials say officers also stopped a passenger with a firearm on Wednesday. There have been nine firearm detections at Logan security checkpoints in 2022.

The TSA reminded passengers that they are permitted to travel with firearms in checked baggage if they are unloaded, packed separately from ammunition in a locked hardback case, and declared at the airline check-in counter.

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