Woman arrested with a loaded gun hidden in her vaginal. Lol!

A Tennessee woman who was found by police to have a loaded gun hidden in her vagina has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Dallas Archer, 21, admitted one count of bringing contraband into a penal facility after a traffic stop in Kingsport in April last year.

Female corrections officers performed a jailhouse search on Archer, who was then 19 years old, after detecting an unknown object in her nether regions.

They discovered a loaded, five-shot, four-inch .22 calibre mini-revolver in her body cavity.

Upon investigation, they found out the gun had been stolen a year earlier from a retiree's car.

An official at Sullivan County Court told Sky News on Thursday that Archer also pleaded guilty to other offences.

These included marijuana possession, driving without a licence or proof of insurance, vandalism and failure to appear.

Archer's lawyer Daniel Cantwell told Sky News his client was sentenced to an additional three years of community corrections on the other charges and two years' probation.

Asked why she hid a gun in her vagina, he said: "I have never got an answer for that. I don't know. I think it's just because she was high."

It isn't the first time a female suspect's been apprehended with a gun concealed in her crotch.

In September, a Texas woman was allegedly found with a .22 semi-automatic Smith and Wesson pistol hidden in her private parts.

And two years ago an Oklahoma woman was sentenced for concealing a loaded revolver in her vagina.