They did not say anything about the identity of the passenger or his current location.
The TSA’s Instagram post showed officers inspecting the chicken in a screening area at the airport and later removing a pistol from inside the chicken.
It is not a crime to carry a firearm on an airplane in the United States, but the weapon must be unloaded, in a locked and secured container, and must be carried in checked baggage.
A record number of firearms were seized from passengers at U.S. airports last year, with nearly 85 percent of them loaded, the TSA said.