A section of Los Angeles International Airport was evacuated last week when a Stanford University professor allegedly tried to bring a World War II-era grenade through a security checkpoint in a carry-on bag.
It has become an all-too common problem. Transportation Security Administration officers uncovered 136 inert, replica or novelty hand grenades from U.S. airports in 2013.
In addition to the grenades, TSA screeners discovered 1,813 firearms, a 16.5% increase from 2012. The 2013 weapons tally represents the fifth year in a row that the number of guns confiscated by the TSA has increased.
Why?
One explanation is that more people are flying on commercial flights since the end of the recession.
Of those passengers who have been stopped for trying to carry weapons onto planes, most say it was an innocent mistake.
"A vast majority of people who have prohibited items claim to have forgotten it in their bag," said TSA spokesman Ross Feinstein.
Another common excuse, he said, is that travelers didn't realize inert or replica weapons were prohibited. But Feinstein noted that X-ray machines and full-body scanners at airport checkpoints cannot tell the difference between fake and real weapons.
In the latest weapons scare at LAX, Los Angeles police officials say Gary Walter Cox, 58, was arrested after TSA officials found the grenade in his carry-on bag. He reportedly told authorities that he thought the grenade was inert, but a Los Angeles police bomb squad detonated the grenade and found it contained explosive material.
Cox was arrested on suspicion of possessing a destructive device and was released on $500,000 bail, police said. He could not be reached for comment.
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