The Transportation Security Administration may miss 95% of weapons at airport security check points, but they caught a five-year-old Philadelphia boy red handed.

The Zilka family was returning home from a trip to Walt Disney World, where Levi became the proud new owner of a Buzz Lightyear “flip grip” toy gun.

When the family arrived at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, it was promptly seized by the government because it looked “too much” like a real gun.

“Once he realized what was happening and they weren’t giving his toy back, he immediately starts bawling, just tears streaming down his face. It was all I could to not to break down with him in that moment,” the boy’s father, David Zilka tells CBS 3.

According to the family, they were told they could put the “weapon” in their checked luggage, but they had only brought carry-on luggage.

“They threw it in the trash,” Levi says.

David Zilka has filed a complaint with the TSA, but that’s likely sitting next to the gun in the Fort Lauderdale dump.

The TSA released a statement defending its actions in the incident:

“TSA officers are charged with protecting passengers and making final judgments on which items are permitted on aircraft. In our review of this situation, the officer’s decision complied with approved procedures. We recently reinforced that training on the procedures with every front line TSA officer. TSA officers have the discretion to deny passage of an item if they cannot definitively rule out that the item could be used as a weapon, or perceived to be a weapon, including replica weapons.

When passengers are informed that an item is prohibited from being carried into the cabin of an airplane, they are given options by TSA. One of those options is that passengers may place the item in a checked bag. Other options given to passengers who arrive at checkpoints with a prohibited item include handing off the item to a non-traveling companion, returning it to their car, and mailing it to their destination if that airport has a mailing center.

Those options are available to passengers and, in this case, were explained to the passenger by TSA. The passenger chose instead to voluntarily surrender the item to TSA, where it was placed in a locked bin along with other prohibited items and will ultimately be turned over to the state.”

A June report found Homeland Security Red Teams conducted a number of tests across the country and found “Red Team members were able to get through security checkpoints with potential weapons in 67 out of 70 tests,” the Washington Examiner reported.

One of those obviously wasn’t Levi’s green and purple toy.