To the ever-growing list of deadly weapons, creatively concealed narcotics and poisonous creatures routinely found in people’s luggage and publicized by the Transportation Security Administration online, add something new:

A missile launcher.

The T.S.A. said it found the weapon in a man’s checked luggage at Baltimore-Washington International Airport around 5:45 a.m. Monday.

Image The Transportation Security Administration discovered a missile launcher in checked luggage at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on Monday. Credit... Transportation Security Administration

The man, whom the T.S.A. did not name, told the authorities that he was an active member of the military and wanted take the missile launcher home with him to Jacksonville, Tex., as a souvenir from Kuwait.

How he even got it to B.W.I. is not clear (as is how he acquired such unusual taste in memorabilia).