Flier finds gun in Denver airport bathroom

A business traveler flying from Denver International Airport says he found a handgun in a men's bathroom stall on Thursday (Oct. 18) morning.

"Oh my God," flier Bob Young of Ohio says to The Denver Post. "It was unnerving to see it sitting there."

Young says he discovered the gun around 5:50 a.m. in Concourse C. The concourse, which is past security, houses gates used by Southwest and Delta.

The Post writes:

Young immediately decided not to touch the weapon, which was in a holster and off to the side of a toilet. He was rushing to leave the restroom to alert airport security about the find when he nearly bumped into a security agent.

Young reported the gun and the agent immediately started typing out a text into a mobile phone. Other security agents arrived and the bathroom was cordoned off, Young said.

Denver police took possession of the gun and investigators ultimately figured out who it belonged to, though they would not release that person's identity, the Post reports.

The Transportation Security Administration says the person carrying the gun was screened appropriately.

"The individual was authorized to carry a firearm aboard an aircraft and was properly screened by TSA," the agency says in a statement to the Post.

John White, a spokesman for the Denver police, tells the Post that the weapon has been turned over to "the appropriate agency."