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 attorneys 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 wasnt 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 2002s 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 dont need Uzis and cop-killer bullets.
When asked to comment Thursday on the arrest of Moores bodyguard, NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said: Based on empirical evidence, this is the height of hypocrisy.
i was wondering if this was a repeat offense or just a reprint..
Okay. Lurch Kerry.
Don’t forget Kerry, it’s a quadfecta.
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.
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.
When liberals suffer from liberal laws ..... ya gotta love the irony!!
The liberal hypocritical hit parade just keeps em coming.
Likely takes four or five men to guard THAT body!
The fact that Moore has a bodyguard proves what a hypocrite he is.
One shot using a .50 Raufoss Mk 211.
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
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