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Woman arrested at BWI airport after TSA finds gun

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 The Transportation Security Administration says a woman was arrested after officers found a loaded handgun in her purse at a security checkpoint at a Maryland airport. The TSA said in a statement that the woman had a .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun loaded with five bullets in her purse at BWI Airport.

The gun detected us the 16th firearm TSA officers have found at BWI so far in 2017.

ABC 2 News contributed to this story.