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Quickly this was accidental when you have this person who fired the firearm now missing? >> they're going to interview the tsa agents that interacted with that passenger. and the actions that were took -- that he undertook after the discovery of the weapon is going to be a large part of what the investigators and the police are looking at. so, this is much more likely the actions of someone that forgot that that firearm was in their bag. sadly, we see a number of those every year. this year has been particularly high. so, that is one of the things they're going to be able to determine pretty q...

What happened when the gun fired? what did the guy say? what did he do? what did tsa say? what did they do? that would bring some clarity. where is the gun? where is the guy? and you know, what is the rest of the facts that make up this event? >> i mean, listen, the guy's lucky he didn't kill someone in that airport. >> that could have happened. >> and as are the people that are -- that were surrounding this individual. as that bag was being searched. but as jay mentioned, this is still a federal crime, firing a gun in an airport. >> well, yeah. i mean, that could be a -- that part could be ac...

I.e., into atlanta, and so from my understanding of, jay, what you're telling us is that is not the responsibility of the tsa then to apprehend that passenger. that then falls to the jurisdiction of the law enforcement. jim cavanaugh, if you're still with me, could you weigh in on that? >> you know, jay's exactly right. the tsa agents are not armed. they are not there to arrest you. their job is to stop and prevent contraband that's harmful, explosives, poison gas materials, firearms, knives, nunchuks from getting through the security area bound for the aircraft. so in this case, the tsa did t...

Officials tell me that they believe that they will be fully staffed through the holidays. they don't expect any delays due to their staffing, so that's not something to be overly concerned about. >> got it. >> one thing to know. the tsa, every single day, tweets out things that people bring to checkpoints that are illegal, whether it's guns, knives, martial arts weapons, whether it's guns, every single day. people bring things to airports that shouldn't be brought to airports and shouldn't be brought on to planes. this is something that's common. it happens extremely often. most of the time, t...

It is not supposed to happen, as you know, but it happens fairly frequently. >> a loaded gun, though, jay? i mean, how often they finding loaded guns in carry-ons? >> it's pretty often. pretty often. if you're on the tsa's twitter account, they tweet out every day, they will tweet out pictures of the guns. they will tweet out pictures of ammunition. most people, jim cavanaugh, will tell you, if they're carrying a gun, they're carrying a gun that's loaded. so i think it's a fairly common occurrence. obviously, after 9/11, after the tsa was stood up and that was, i believe, 20 years ago on frida...