KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) – A 37-year-old rural Kearney man has paid a $300 fine and been place on probation for trying to take a loaded handgun onto a plane at Kearney Regional Airport.
Randy Black recently pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of violating his concealed-weapon permit for having a loaded .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun in his carry-on luggage at the airport on Sept. 25. Black also was placed on six months’ probation.
Authorities say the gun was detected by a security X-ray machine at the airport.
Federal authorities say firearms must be placed in locked, hard-sided containers in checked baggage and be unloaded, and owners must declare the presence of the weapons.
Black wasn’t considered a terror threat and his case was not forwarded to federal prosecutors.