Ex-Mississippi gov says he 'forgot' gun seized at airport
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says it was "nobody's fault but mine" that he took a loaded handgun in his briefcase through an airport security checkpoint in early January.
Barbour said Tuesday he will pay a fine after he was stopped and arrested Jan. 2 while boarding a flight from Mississippi to Washington, D.C. The gun was spotted in a TSA X-ray machine.
He says he forgot he was carrying the gun, which he had put in his briefcase after an assistant removed it from his car days earlier.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says a TSA officer working at an X-ray machine at a checkpoint at Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport spotted a .38-caliber revolver, loaded with five bullets, in a passenger's carry-on bag.