Airport security

Feds: Plastic gun from 3-D printer seized at Nevada airport

Airport screening agents confiscated a plastic handgun produced with a 3-D printer from a man’s carry-on luggage last week at a Nevada airport in what a federal official said Wednesday might have been the first discovery of its kind in the U.S.

A report by Reno-Tahoe International Airport police said the white gun was a replica that couldn’t fire and was loaded with five .22-caliber bullets.

“Whether it’s a replica or not, it’s not allowed,” Transportation Security Administration Agency spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said, noting that people in the airplane cabin might not be able to distinguish a real gun from a replica.

The bullets were detected on a luggage scanner, according to the police report obtained Wednesday.