Posted on 12/04/2011 9:38:19 AM PST by JoeProBono
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.- Airport security agents say a replica gun is a replica gun, even if it was just a design on a Florida teenager's purse.
The Transportation Security Administration says its agents acted appropriately when they ordered 17-year-old Vanessa Gibbs to check her designer purse at the Norfolk, Va., airport because of the image of a pistol it had on it.
The agency said "replica weapons have been prohibited since 2002," and that means even a very obvious replica, said News4 Jax.com in Jacksonville, Fla.
Gibbs remains flabbergasted at the hassle, which she says caused her to miss her flight home and wound up flying into Orlando instead of Jacksonville, much to the consternation of her mom.
"It's my style, it's camouflage, it has an old western gun on it," Gibbs told New4.Jax.com.
What irked Gibbs the most was the fact she had taken the bag on the flight to Norfolk without any trouble from the TSA.
"It's a purse, not a weapon," she said.
Well then, we will just have to ban purses now won't we!
Sort of like having your kid expelled because he brought an aspirin to school.
I guess you’d have to read some legal definition of a replica, but this isn’t a replica by the dictionary definition. It’s merely an artistic representation, as a painting or drawing, the bas-relief notwithstanding.
Even so, I would never take something like that into an airport.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Even so, I would never take something like that into an airport.
You're also not a teenage girl.
According to the TSA then a photograph of a firearm would be a replica. What’s with banning replicas anyway. What the hell can a replica do to anyone?
Actually, it would be as if he brought a picture of an aspirin to school
I would guess that would show up on the xray. They would have to pull her out of line. But to say it’s not allowed is stupid.
This is just some goofball who can’t think beyond regimentation. You’ll have this. It’s called stupidity. She was fine in the other direction. The person who held her should not be working for the TSA.
Somebody posted the legal definition on another thread, and is says it's considered a replica if it is made to look like a firearm manufactured after 1868.
If that's made to look like an early Colt revolver, then by their own defition it's not a replca.
Why would a girl want to carry a purse like that? Is it a Gangsta’ Rap sort of thing?
I am assuming that by replica they mean it’s a gun, but it just doesn’t work. Can’t really have TSA agents firing it to see, so ban them. NOT pictures of them. Good grief. Reading is fundamental.
or a cowboy thing.
Regardless: It’s not up to us or the TSA to approve fashion.
Where else could he get a paying job? Besides, he fits right in.
Which one’s female ;D!?
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