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Florida Teen Detained by TSA for Design on her Purse
Yep, that's right. It's not a production firearm. It's not a firing replica. It's not even a non-firing replica.
It's a "non-firing, non-replica, badly-simulated half-shell emblem that resembles the exterior surface of a firearm." Any five-year-old could tell you the only way it could possibly be fired is in a kiln.
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Next up for the TSA: Throwing children in jail when they simulate a firearm with their index finger for "possession of a potentially lethal replica because we're too stupid to tell the difference between a child's hand and an actual firearm."
A half-shell emblem on a purse is NOT a "replica."
Yep, that's right. It's not a production firearm. It's not a firing replica. It's not even a non-firing replica.
It's a "non-firing, non-replica, badly-simulated half-shell emblem that resembles the exterior surface of a firearm." Any five-year-old could tell you the only way it could possibly be fired is in a kiln.
Check it out:
Next up for the TSA: Throwing children in jail when they simulate a firearm with their index finger for "possession of a potentially lethal replica because we're too stupid to tell the difference between a child's hand and an actual firearm."
As defined in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(16) the term “antique firearm” means any firearm (including any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system) manufactured in or before 1898; or
any replica of any firearm described in subparagraph (A) if such replica —
is not designed or redesigned for using rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition, or
uses rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition which is no longer manufactured in the United States and which is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade; or
A half-shell emblem on a purse is NOT a "replica."
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