Posted on 05/11/2008 4:40:50 PM PDT by hole_n_one
LOS ANGELES, May 11 (Reuters) - Dennis Farina, a former policeman who built a Hollywood career playing detectives, was arrested on Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport for carrying a loaded gun on his way to board a plane, police said.
Farina, 64, told police he brought the .22 caliber, semi-automatic pistol with him on a drive from Arizona to Los Angeles and forgot it was in his briefcase when he tried to pass through airport security, police said in a statement.
He was scheduled to take a United Airlines flight to his home in Chicago.
"Farina was very apologetic and cooperative with officers," police said. "However, he had no apparent authority to carry a concealed weapon at the time of his arrest."
The actor was initially booked on one misdemeanor count of carrying a loaded firearm and bail was set at $25,000. The charge was upgraded later to a felony after police confirmed the gun was not registered, and bail was raised to $35,000.
Farina was a Chicago police officer for nearly 20 years before taking up acting in the 1980s. He has starred in movies such as "Get Shorty" and "Sidewalks of New York" and is perhaps best known in the role of New York Detective Joe Fontana on the popular television crime series, "Law & Order."
I’d liked to have taken my concealed weapon along with me on my recent trip from Florida to california and back. When you go out of the country, it could be useful.
Not a chance.
No, he’s not.
Very much a ladies’ man.
I loved that show.
Really, he should be fined a generous amount for it being loaded and not in his immediate control. There should also be mandatory jail time for carrying anything smaller than a .40
Really.. seriously.. this is gun control at it's finest. Does anyone really feel safer now that this guy is in jail? I don't know his politics and I don't care what they are, but unless he is a gun control activist, this is yet another travesty.
I have 31 firearms. At any given time, I know where every single one of them are, which ones are loaded, which ones are chambered and which ones are in need of cleaning.
I can't imagine forgetting something like this.
Also, you get 3 demerits for carrying an unloaded gun ! hehe
22-250, 223, 22 hornet, etc.
.22 rimfire is a pretty fast round for it's size, but simply doesn't do enough damage or carry the ballistics needed for anything much larger than squirrels.. They also have a bad habit of not separating and going through targets, damaging unintended things/people behind the intended target. Not the best personal defense round.
"Didn’t he play Anthony Buono, one of the two cousins who made up the Hillside Strangler duo, in a made for TV movie back in the 80’s?"
Yes, the name of that movie was The Case of the Hillside Stranglers 1989
"Freaky movie."
The scene from that movie that most sicks in my mind is the one on the ferry in which this beautiful horse gallops around and around and faster and faster until he jumps over the railing of the upper deck and crashes onto the deck below. I know it was only a movie, but that scene really upset me, actually more than the plot of rest of the film did.
LOL
You start poking holes in somebody and they’re not going to be too concerned about what caliber you’re using.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001199/#actor1990
I also believe more deer have been killed with a 22. The measly 22 is still the caliber of choice when people illegally spotlight deer. The sound doesn’t carry very far in the woods.
In 1983 i got a call to respond to an address in the nth part of the county. Shot’s fired, several people injured. When i arrived there were 3 bodies laying in the yard and one outside the yard by a truck. A very distraught father was standing on the porch. It started out as a BBQ and ended with 4 shot 3 dead. The man by the truck had shot his girlfriend and both of her brothers. The man by the truck was shot by the father. The 3 in the yard had all been shot by a Marlin semi-auto 22 rifle, all were pronounced dead at that scene. Only survivor was the boy friend and he had been shot with a 12ga REM 870. Only one victim was hit more than once and that was the boyfriend, he had a total of 31 entry wounds. the size of the shot was BB. From the porch to the truck was a total distance of 31 ft.
I do not want to get shot with a 22.
He should argue for Equal Protection under The Law, It was only a few years back when a CIVILIAN employee of LAPD, who had a ccw permit which was Valid Only while At work(not to or from or any other time) He then willfully and Knowingly Carried a Loaded 9mm handgun into LAX, TSA found it and prompty arrested him, but then they decided to call Chief Bratton, who immediately drove to LAX and started begging for special treatment for this Civilian Employee, after about an hour of Chief Bratton on his Knees, TSA released the would be criminal with no Charges filed. His Name was Glenn Miller, he was promptly Hired by the FBI after his Willful Violation of Law with regards to Carrying a Loaded Firearm into LAX Airport.
Those who put faith in Government, Shall be enslaved by the same Government.
Eyeamok
You are correct about the caliber being not just .22 rimfire.
22-250, 223's good fast rounds.....
.22 rimfires have this nasty habit of bouncing around body cavities....doing lot's of damage. Human's included.
Never said...it was a good personal defense round.
FRegards,
Bingo....
That, and the fact that the .22 has been around longer than game laws, ( 1000's of whitetails were killed legally by the .22 rimfire before Wildlife Dept's regulated it. )...was my point.
FRegards,
Me neither.
I've worked a trauma room in a few E.R.'s
I've seen what a .22 can do.....
FRegards,
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