Deported back to the U.S. because of a .25 Auto.

[Oaktree45]

A 77 year old man was caught trying to bring a handgun on a cruise ship in Italy. Here's the link https://www.cruisemummy.co.uk/ameri...2aRw1YUM69mbxNUT4A_aem_tl8duzUkhnZ8zeKqWm-Iew

What I want to know is how he got that handgun from Tennessee into Italy. If the handgun was in his backpack all that time, how did he get through TSA and Italian customs with it. He was very lucky Italian authorities deported him instead of arresting him.

 

[Blackmesa96]

He's even luckier they didn't laugh and ridicule him for his choice.

 

[Oaktree45]

Cruises aren't cheap and he won't receive a refund for it either. So, gun confiscated and lose the cost of the cruise, expensive lesson.

 

[HayesGreener]

It wasn't a Beretta

 

[ChanceMcCall]

It wasn't a Beretta

That is what I was guessing. What was it? There are very few .25ACPs I would trust beyond a Seecamp or some very old Baby Brownings that had been well maintained.

 

[HayesGreener]

That is what I was guessing. What was it? There are very few .25ACPs I would trust beyond a Seecamp or some very old Baby Brownings that had been well maintained.

Article says Browning

 

[Annihilator]

I carried this .25 right after my surgery, 100% realiable, couldn’t wear anything but sweat bottoms so I used a Sticky Pocket holster, never any doubt about carrying it.

 

[ECS686]

The 25 auto is what caused Richard Ramirez AKA the Nightstalker to get caught.

Ramirez MO was he killed all his victims by shoot in them in the face/head with a 22LR pistol. He changed guns to a 25 auto and his first crime with the 25 left them for dead however the senior coulle lived and were able to provide police with a description for the first time.

Richard Ramirez - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Winchester67]

My Smoking Jacket has a special holster sewn into the pocket for a Colt .25 Auto.

 

[Belt Fed]

My Smoking Jacket

Tobacco will kill you faster than that 25 auto.

 

[Winchester67]

I concur. The Smoking Jacket was a leftover from my bachelor days when Cigars and Brandy frequently followed dinner. As my wife says she would rather kiss a skunk than a smoker, I have given up tobacco.

 

[HayesGreener]

I concur. The Smoking Jacket was a leftover from my bachelor days when Cigars and Brandy frequently followed dinner. As my wife says she would rather kiss a skunk than a smoker, I have given up tobacco.

 

[Belt Fed]

Ok, I gotta ask, what's the difference in a smoking jacket and any other jacket?

 

[Winchester67]

A smoking jacket is traditionally a velvet or other dense material overcoat that one wears around the house when the gentlemen gather in the Library to smoke cigars, drink brandy and discuss world affairs/business. The idea is that the smoking jacket protects your evening clothes from the smoke smell. Least that is what Bass Bob told me.

 

[HayesGreener]

When I was a young officer working the street, I carried a .25 auto in a shirt pocket as a hole card. Never had to use it but it felt like insurance.

 

[Shibadog]

As noted, the real question is how in hades he got through airport security and customs to make it all the way to Italy. Really reinforces your trust in the whole TSA process huh?

 

[Winchester67]

During the twenty years between my First and my Final Marriage I was without adult supervision. In retrospect, it was determined that I was in fact channeling the Spirit of Dean Martin during that entire time, hence the acquisition of a smoking jacket. It is mostly a blur.

 

[Winchester67]

PS-Apologies to Basscliff. I referred to him as Bassbob. Bass Cliff is in fact the barometer of deciding who is a Cretin and whom is a Gentleman on this forum.

 

[Belt Fed]

who is a Cretin

You rang?

 

[Winchester67]

Wait I was right the first time! Too much bass! (see what I did there, Hi-Fi guys?)