Port Authority police arrested a Indiana man who tried to bring a Soviet-style AK-47 onto a Chicago-bound flight from Newark Tuesday.
TSA officers called police to the baggage screening area after they found the assault rifle and three loaded clips in 23-year-old Adam Urbano’s checked baggage, according the PAPD.
The gun was not properly packed or declared to the airline, according to TSA officials.
After discovering the gun, police tracked down Urbano in the terminal and arrested him on a charges of unlawful possession of an assault firearm and a prohibited weapon-large capacity ammunition magazine.
Urbano, who had no paperwork for the rifle, told officers that he bought the weapon and ammunition for “recreational purposes.”
He was ticketed to fly to Chicago-Midway Airport.
All firearms must be unloaded, packed in a hard-side case, locked and packed separately from ammunition, according to the TSA.
(Source: WPIX 11)
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That not an ak. Caliber aside, its in way even related to an AK. Why can’t good journalists ever correctly ID a weapon!?!? It’s a one-shot-per-trigger-pull SEMI automatic czeck rifle.
Charges will be dropped if he was merely traveling through NJ and he can show it was locked up as he transited the state. Forgetting to declare a firearm in your checked baggage is at best a slap on the wrist in so far every case. Even in the carry on we’ve seen no jail sentences. TSA doesn’t care as Long as they prevented the unclaimed gun from boarding.. It’s only anti-liberty state police agencies that follow up with arrests//tickets.
Your gulag rules only apply to those sheep still in the gulag. Federal law protects those traveling through.
You’d think the insane property taxes would tell you everything you need to know about a state like NJ. People still don’t get it.
No, it’s an AK-47. Just google AK47 and you’ll see it’s identical, except this one has the folding stock instead of the typical wood one.
Also, he wasn’t traveling through NJ. He went to NJ, then later tried to fly to chicago. As such, NJ laws apply to him.
Re comments 1 and 2: As far as I know, the photos accompanying YWN articles are typically file photos not directly related to the story. YWN has not said whether the photo accompanying this article is the confiscated gun or a file photo.
Moderators Note: This photo was taken by the Port Authority Police of the actual gun confiscated.