A West Virginia man was stopped from bringing a gun onto an airplane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, authorities said.
TSA officers found the gun and ammunition magazine, which contained six rounds of ammunition, in the carry-on bag belonging to 43-year-old Robin Kincaid Welch, of Victor, W. Va.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police responded to the checkpoint, confiscated the firearm and cited Welch with a misdemeanor state weapons charge, officials said.
The incident did not affect airport operations, and Welch was able to catch his scheduled his flight to Detroit, officials said.
