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Clown from US Arrested with Pistol at Sydney Airport
AmmoLand ^ | December 13, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/21/2024 8:44:56 AM PST by marktwain

On April 23, 2023, in the airport at Sidney, Australia, a heavily tattooed and pierced non-binary person known as Liliana Goodson failed to declare a 1911 A1 type pistol in her “hand luggage“.  Hand luggage is what Australians call carry-on bags.  Liliana has been reported as planning to attend a clown school in Australia.

Liliana’s preferred pronouns have been “they/them,” but she has also been referred to by her Australian lawyer as she/her.  According to news.com.au:

A heavily tattooed American traveller is fighting to be released from jail after she was allegedly busted trying to smuggle a 24-karat gold-plated pistol into Australia in her hand luggage.

Liliana Goodson was arrested on April 23 after Australian Border Force officials claim they found a handgun hidden in her hand luggage when she touched down in Sydney.

An X-ray machine at Sydney Airport allegedly detected the golden gun inside Ms Goodson’s hand luggage after she flew into the country from Los Angeles.

Liliana gave conflicting stories about how the pistol was in her bag. She spent about a week in an Australian jail before being allowed out on bail. This correspondent wonders about security at the Los Angeles Airport. If the pistol was in her carry-on, as indicated, it slipped through security in Los Angeles without being noticed.  This source claims the ammunition in Liliana’s luggage was the wrong caliber for the .45 Auto.

According to a submission from her lawyer, Goodson had been paranoid when she packed the gun due in part to self-medication with synthetic cannabis; she had also attempted to ship 50 rounds of ammunition, though not of the correct size.


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People crossing borders have almost no rights.
1 posted on 12/21/2024 8:44:56 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

How did this clown get through LAX security with a 1911 in their carry-on?


2 posted on 12/21/2024 8:50:38 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: marktwain

“People crossing borders have almost no rights.”

They should have ZERO RIGHTS, but US judges and politicians often give them more rights than Americans.


3 posted on 12/21/2024 8:51:27 AM PST by BobL
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To: marktwain
Needs to be locked up to spare the rest of us the daily grief"


4 posted on 12/21/2024 8:54:56 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: marktwain

The “ugly” Americans????


5 posted on 12/21/2024 8:56:53 AM PST by elpadre
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“You think I’m funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown? Do I amuse you?”


6 posted on 12/21/2024 8:58:23 AM PST by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: marktwain

“A heavily tattooed and pierced non-binary person known as Liliana Goodson.
“The ammunition in Liliana’s luggage was the wrong caliber for the .45 Auto”. Reads like Liliana might have been the wrong caliber itself.


7 posted on 12/21/2024 9:00:37 AM PST by kawhill (Did they say why Willard? Are my methods unsound?)
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To: marktwain
Cross out the almost... You have NO rights when crossing a border. They can detain you, take your phone and force you to give them the password, anally probe you, etc., etc.

The sad part, is how many people are dumb enough to carry an unannounced gun, and who the hell at LAX failed to find that gun? That is a very big hole in their security apparatus.

8 posted on 12/21/2024 9:00:54 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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She may not have entered the secure area in LAX. She said she had a gun permit from Alabama.


9 posted on 12/21/2024 9:03:20 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Paladin2

Hot.


10 posted on 12/21/2024 9:05:23 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: marktwain

Still had to pass through TSA to get on a commercial flight. I guess any clown can just waltz through security. Ooh look at the balloon animal.


11 posted on 12/21/2024 9:17:11 AM PST by Waverunner
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We should probably do a head count. One of our war hawk couch potatoes may have decided to go abroad.


12 posted on 12/21/2024 9:17:27 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: marktwain

It’s “his handheld luggage”, not “her handheld luggage”.
Whilst trannys should be treated with the respect given all, I’ll not put up with me changing the English language to cater to someone’s mental problem. And, regardless of the cause, it IS a mental problem.


13 posted on 12/21/2024 9:21:57 AM PST by Da Coyote (H)
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To: Waverunner

Correct.


14 posted on 12/21/2024 9:22:00 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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She may not have entered the secure area in LAX. She said she had a gun permit from Alabama.

Was she a Reverend from the United Methodist Church who is a mom?

15 posted on 12/21/2024 9:22:40 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: Da Coyote

My understanding is she is a biological woman.

She says she is “bi” .


16 posted on 12/21/2024 9:23:06 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: jerod

Barry Switzer, August 1997, DFW airport. And it was loaded with the correct ammunition. Of course in Texas most of our duffel bags, backpacks, and paper sacks have at least one pistol in it- so it is more of a matter of forgetting to take it out when you go to the airport.


17 posted on 12/21/2024 9:25:51 AM PST by rmichaelj (Ave Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum.)
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To: marktwain

Define "people". I fail to see.

18 posted on 12/21/2024 9:26:51 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: Antihero101607

Because the acronym is also an adjective.


19 posted on 12/21/2024 9:31:30 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: DCBryan1

She looks like she might enjoy cannibalism.


20 posted on 12/21/2024 9:40:59 AM PST by Disambiguator
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