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TSA lets a father and child fly after discovering a gun hidden in a Mickey Mouse stuffed animal.

While screening a passenger’s carry-on bag, the Transportation Security Administration says, its agents found the hardware of a .40 caliber gun, a magazine loaded with two rounds of ammunition and a firing pin – all concealed within three stuffed animals, including a Mickey Mouse.

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