BALTIMORE (AP) — Officials say a woman has been stopped at an airport security checkpoint with a pair of gun-shaped stiletto heels.
Multiple media outlets report Transportation Security Administration agents stopped the woman Sunday afternoon at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says the shoes, which had stiletto heels in the shape of handgun barrels and also featured what looked like bullets, were in the woman’s carry-on luggage, along with bracelets lined in faux bullets.
Farbstein says the woman was told that she could put the items in her checked luggage.
The agency prohibits passengers from carrying “replica guns or ammunition” through airport security checkpoints.
Officials say the woman tried to check the items, but ended up leaving them with the TSA in order to catch her flight.
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Shoes and bracelets that are less than ideal to wear or bring to a @TSA checkpoint. These delayed a traveler at BWI. pic.twitter.com/tZiFkwCBLf
— TSAmedia_LisaF (@TSAmedia_LisaF) February 29, 2016
