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Loaded Handgun Found in Passenger's Bag on Tahiti-Auckland Flight
28 November 2010
New Zealand Herald
An international traveller packed a loaded handgun in his luggage and got it into Auckland Airport.
The Bauer .25-calibre gun was found after he had collected his luggage and put it through a Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry x-ray machine as he prepared to leave the airport.
The passenger, Baptiste Julien Jeune, 69, had arrived on a flight from Tahiti, and had been cleared by New Zealand Customs officers.
The MAF officer who discovered it while x-raying the bag... (GunPolicy.org)