THE BACKPACK is on the small side, with a discreet, black-and-gray checked pattern that would seem to identify it as a $1,700 Louis Vuitton. It sat in Nigel Bradham's NovaCare locker stall Wednesday, minus the gun that authorities removed from it Sunday afternoon at Miami International Airport.
Bradham picked it up and unzipped the small compartment in the very front - "the smallest zipper on the bag" - where he said he'd forgotten Sunday that he'd stashed his loaded gun, for which he had a concealed carry permit.
"I never open this," he said, showing the empty compartment.