Associated Press

CHARLOTTE — The Transportation Security Administration says its officers seized two guns in separate incident at the Charlotte airport.

A TSA news release said a Charlotte man was stopped at a security checkpoint at Charlotte Douglas International Airport after the X-ray monitor spotted a .45 caliber gun with five bullets in it.

The agency also said a Rockwell man was caught when the X-ray machine revealed a 9 mm gun loaded with six bullets in his attache.

The two incidents occurred Tuesday. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police cited the men on weapons charges.

TSA said the incidents mark the 59th and 60th guns that its officers have caught at the Charlotte airport this year. That’s more guns in 11 months than for all of 2016, when 54 firearms were seized.