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(Michael) Moore bodyguard arrested on gun charge
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Posted on 05/07/2018 8:08:34 PM PDT by doug from upland

A bodyguard who has protected outspoken moviemaker and gun-control advocate Michael Moore was arrested at Kennedy International Airport for allegedly carrying a pistol without a New York license, authorities said Thursday.

Patrick Burk, 34, faced arraignment on a felony charge of criminal possession of a weapon. Prosecutors did not have his attorney’s name.

Burk was questioned by police Wednesday night after he notified a United Airlines ticket agent that he wanted to carry his weapon — unloaded and in a bag — on a flight to Los Angeles, said Port Authority spokesman Tony Ciavolella.

The bodyguard, who works for the California-based security firm Gavin de Becker & Associates, told police he had traveled to New York with Moore earlier this month, Ciavolella said. He produced licenses for his Mauser handgun from California and Florida, but not New York, which prompted his arrest.

Moore spokesman Mark Benoit said the filmmaker “wasn’t there and had nothing do with this.”

Burk has been assigned to protect Moore at times in the past but is not his personal bodyguard, Gavin de Becker said.

De Becker defended Burk, saying he had followed proper procedures at the airport. He called him “a leading professional in his field.”

Moore, the director of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” won the documentary Academy Award for 2002’s “Bowling for Columbine,” a scathing look at the gun culture in America.

In an interview last year with Playboy magazine, Moore called the National Rifle Association a “radical, freaky group.”

“Most Americans are with me on this,” he said about stricter gun controls. “They understand duck hunters don’t need Uzis and cop-killer bullets.”

When asked to comment Thursday on the arrest of Moore’s bodyguard, NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said: “Based on empirical evidence, this is the height of hypocrisy.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guns; idiot; michaelmoore
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

i was wondering if this was a repeat offense or just a reprint..


41 posted on 05/08/2018 4:21:29 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: doug from upland

Okay. Lurch Kerry.


42 posted on 05/08/2018 4:36:27 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: ptsal

Don’t forget Kerry, it’s a quadfecta.


43 posted on 05/08/2018 4:52:33 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: VTenigma; doug from upland

Then, the story about Blumenthal and the AOL account.

The photo of Queen Hillary in the back brace was almost a keeper too.

Maybe it was a Clinton Flush or a common Radical Flush.


44 posted on 05/08/2018 5:01:12 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: doug from upland

Thirty years ago GUN WEEK newspaper called this “The Curse of the Gunnies” in which an anti-gun person was caught in an illegal situation with a gun.
Ted Kennedy’s bodyguard, caught in Washington DC with a full auto sub machine gun comes to mind, then there was the murderer of SF’s Mayor Mosconi and Harvey Milk,who was associated with a large anti-gun organization, along with many more.


45 posted on 05/08/2018 6:49:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: doug from upland

When liberals suffer from liberal laws ..... ya gotta love the irony!!


46 posted on 05/08/2018 6:56:52 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: doug from upland

The liberal hypocritical hit parade just keeps em coming.


47 posted on 05/08/2018 6:59:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: doug from upland

Likely takes four or five men to guard THAT body!


48 posted on 05/08/2018 7:04:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: doug from upland

The fact that Moore has a bodyguard proves what a hypocrite he is.


49 posted on 05/08/2018 7:05:45 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Paladin2

One shot using a .50 Raufoss Mk 211.


50 posted on 05/08/2018 7:45:16 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: doug from upland
Utter nonsense. Gavin DeBecker is one of the top security specialists. I have often commented that it I was Trump I would use him instead of the SS. ☺
51 posted on 05/08/2018 8:09:03 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

He may be referring to a new full semi automatic anti-tank pistol that fires heat seeking high explosive depleted uranium rounds that can kill 15 tanks with a single shot.

/sarc


52 posted on 05/08/2018 9:46:43 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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