KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) - A rural Kearney man has paid a $300 fine and been place on probation for trying to take a loaded handgun onto a plane at Kearney Regional Airport.
 
37-year-old Randy Black recently pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of violating his concealed-weapon permit for having a loaded .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun in his carry-on luggage at the airport on September 25th. Black also was placed on six months' probation.
    
Authorities say the gun was detected by a security X-ray machine at the airport.
     
Federal authorities say firearms must be placed in locked, hard-sided containers in checked baggage and be unloaded. Owners must also declare the presence of the weapons.
    
Black wasn't considered a terror threat and his case was not forwarded to federal prosecutors.