Ammo confiscated at LA/Ontario International Airport

The unidentified traveler was intending to board a 5:30 a.m. Alaska Airlines flight to Seattle from Terminal 2 when officials saw nine rounds of 44-caliber and nine rounds of 380-caliber ammunition in a carryon bag, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for TSA.

"The gentlemen told TSA officials the bag belonged to his later father-in-law who was a retired police officer, he said. 

Police cleared the passenger to fly.

Melendez urged travelers to remember to declare any weapons or ammunition as well as packing them in their checked baggage.