Officials confiscated one loaded handgun at the TSA Precheck Checkpoint on Wednesday and one on Thursday morning. Both passengers were questioned and cited.
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TSA officials have caught 49 firearms at RDU in 2016, compared to 30 in 2015.
Authorities said anyone caught with a firearm loses Precheck benefits for two years. The entire screening lane must be shut down for law enforcement, as well, delaying other passengers' security check-in.
"Passengers are permitted to travel with firearms in checked baggage if they are unloaded, packed in a hard-side case, locked, and packed separately from ammunition. Then the firearm must be taken to the airline check-in counter for proper firearm declaration procedures," TSA said in a news release Thursday.
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