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Teen stopped at airport for design [gun replica]on purse
WJXT - Jacksonville ^ | Dec 01 2011 | staff reporter

Posted on 12/02/2011 3:54:44 AM PST by Daffynition

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

A teenage girl's sense of style got her in trouble at the airport.

Vanessa Gibbs, 17, claims the Transportation Security Administration stopped her at the security gate because of the design of a gun on her handbag.

Gibbs said she had no problem going through security at Jacksonville International Airport, but rather, when she headed home from Virginia.

"It's my style, it's camouflage, it has an old western gun on it," Gibbs said.

But her preference for the pistol style didn't sit well with TSA agents at the Norfolk airport.

Gibbs said she was headed back home to Jacksonville from a holiday trip when an agent flagged her purse as a security risk.

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To: CPOSharky
This is a *show-stopper*.


41 posted on 12/02/2011 6:09:21 AM PST by Daffynition ( *Socialism, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore it*)
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To: Daffynition

Last time I flew, in Oct. I discovered I had a small pocket knife in my purse. They missed it coming and going. I was horrified at what they would have done to me if they had found it.


42 posted on 12/02/2011 6:09:26 AM PST by Ditter
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To: aruanan

I don’t think it’s possible for the TSA’s reputation to sink any lower than it already has.


43 posted on 12/02/2011 6:17:14 AM PST by Mountain Troll (My investment plan - Canned food and shotguns)
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To: Daffynition
Sometimes the TSA overlooks something....

It took them long enough to figure out that an embossed image of a gun on the side of a purse isn't a real gun to make her miss her flight. I wouldn't be surprised to learn the FBI's 10 most wanted got on a plane while they were cavity searching someone they caught carrying a copy of the Constitution.

44 posted on 12/02/2011 6:20:23 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: Daffynition

Remedy in two words:

QUIT FLYING!

If enough people would simply refuse to fly, the TSA would be gone.

But where is that tea party? Who’s ripping up the airline ticket, plucking the wings off the airlines, dumping the baggage in the harbor...?

Where has Liberty gone?


45 posted on 12/02/2011 6:28:15 AM PST by Lady Lucky
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To: nuconvert

They both need to just get over it and stop making such a big deal.
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This happened to me over a tube of lipstick. ( Really) I was given the choice of checking it or leaving it at the TSA station.

My bags had already been checked. There were long lines at the airline check in counter, and there likely would have been a fee to put another package in the baggage section of the flight. I would have had to search the airport for an appropriate container for the lipstick which I likely would not have been able to find. In all, I likely would have missed my flight.

Some choice! I left the $7.00 tube of lipstick in the TSA trash can. That also was probably on the only rational choice for this mom and girl.

I haven’t flown since TSA put in their abusive sex molesting searches. It would take a lot for me to fly again. It simply isn’t worth the aggravation and annoyance.


46 posted on 12/02/2011 6:56:58 AM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: GladesGuru

Race AND gender!


47 posted on 12/02/2011 6:58:58 AM PST by OldEagle
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To: nuconvert
They both need to just get over it and stop making such a big deal.
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Where is the evidence that the mom and daughter made a “big deal” of it.

The girl was properly assertive, even though by properly challenging the decision, she missed her flight. No where in the story is there any mention of the girl making a fuss.

When her daughter didn't arrive on the expected flight, the mom was completely rational in making phone calls to find out where she was.

The only thing that bothers me with this story, in this day of universal cell phones, is why the daughter didn't phone the mom to let her know where she was.

48 posted on 12/02/2011 7:07:29 AM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: nuconvert
I wonder if the TSA agent was black. Do you think there might have been racism involved, or can only whites be racist?
49 posted on 12/02/2011 7:09:02 AM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: Daffynition
Proving once again that TSA really stands for,”Thoroughly Stupid Agency.”
50 posted on 12/02/2011 7:26:26 AM PST by JayAr36
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To: Daffynition
Proving once again that TSA really stands for,”Thoroughly Stupid Agency.”
51 posted on 12/02/2011 7:28:11 AM PST by JayAr36
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To: JayAr36

Affirmative action hires...what do you expect?


52 posted on 12/02/2011 7:28:29 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Daffynition

Proving once again that TSA really stands for,”Thoroughly Stupid Agency.”


53 posted on 12/02/2011 7:29:00 AM PST by JayAr36
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To: who knows what evil?

Run by people that have failed their IQ tests.


54 posted on 12/02/2011 7:31:43 AM PST by JayAr36
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To: Daffynition
But her preference for the pistol style didn't sit well with TSA agents at the Norfolk airport.

Yep. Replicas are on the *prohibited* list. Sorry kiddo.

Sooooo stupid. How long are we going to allow Congress to pass laws to oppress us? How is "replicas as prohibited" Constitutional?

I REFUSE to fly commercial until this TSA nonsense ends.

55 posted on 12/02/2011 8:11:58 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: Daffynition

“I have a picture of a gun!! Take this plane to Cuba!!”


56 posted on 12/02/2011 8:56:45 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: tacticalogic

FIREARM, FACSIMILE OF

“Facsimile of a firearm” means (A) any nonfunctional imitation of an original firearm which was manufactured, designed and produced since 1898, or (B) any nonfunctional representation of a firearm other than an imitation of an original firearm, provided such representation could reasonably be perceived to be a real firearm. Such term does not include any look-a-like, nonfiring, collector replica of an antique firearm developed prior to 1898, or traditional BB or pellet-firing air gun that expels a metallic or paint-contained projectile through the force of air pressure.

Source: State of CT General Statutes § 53-206c (a) (1).


57 posted on 12/02/2011 11:53:31 AM PST by Daffynition ( *Socialism, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore it*)
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To: Daffynition

How long do you think it should take to figure out that no one would reasonable believe that an embossed image of a gun on the side of a purse is a real firearm?


58 posted on 12/02/2011 12:27:20 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: Daffynition

Insanity is the order of the day. I grieve as I watch my great nation in rapid decline. I don’t have any hope for this reversal of insanity. I only pray we can slow down the rate at which it is coming.

I get on my knees and I thank the Lord I was born an American in 1958 and not 2058. I’ve often wished I was born well before 1958, but I am still very grateful not to have been born later, when the impact from America’s decline will become even more oppressive and tyrannical.


59 posted on 12/02/2011 1:36:09 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (We be fooked.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I have always thought about 1936 as a good year to be born...pulp magazines, old-time radio...yahoo!


60 posted on 12/02/2011 1:38:36 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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