17-Year-Old Stopped At Jacksonville International Aiport For Gun Pistol Design On Her Purse By TSA Agents!
"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.
"She was like, 'This is a federal offense because
it's in the shape of a gun,'" Gibbs said. "I'm
like, 'But it's a design on a purse. How is it a
federal offense?'"" - News4