Posted on 04/30/2022 12:31:44 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
An 88-year-old retired NYPD cop living out his golden years in Ireland was busted in a dragnet worthy of a Hollywood movie — for keeping an old, decommissioned revolver in his home.
The daring morning police raid was the largest in recent memory in the tiny village of Swanlinbar, County Cavan, population 200, when up to 10 armed officers in six vehicles descended on the picture-postcard hamlet.
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Those Irish cops are sure desperate for something to occupy their time, aren’t they ?
Coming here next!
My friends if it’s someone else’s job to put you in your place you can be sure he’ll find something. It’s called job security. We got the same thing here.
88 years old, not exactly a security threat.
Don’t post pics of your guns on Facebook
“I said to them, I wish it was ——ing loaded because I would have blown every ——king one of you away,” the outraged octogenarian recalled to The Post. The firing pin was removed from the gun a long time ago, and it is no longer functional.
a visitor to McGovern’s home a few years ago snapped a playful picture of the gun and posted it on Facebook.
cops told him they would return his gun “when it was justified by a gunsmith that it is inoperable.”
(10 armed officers in six vehicles descended on the picture-postcard hamlet)
Good thing it was decommissioned or they might have needed 10 times as many!
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“Don’t post pics of your guns on Facebook”
A black man where I worked posted photo-shopped pictures of himself with guns and suitcases full of cash. (He always carried a huge roll of cash at work. I saw it once and told him he was going to get killed.) Yep, a couple of other blacks shot him, in his home, nine times. There was nothing in any of the articles on the subject about any stolen money or guns and my guess was there weren’t any. All of this because of a posted photo.
This kind of response by government is exactly why we need weapons of war.
Love this guy.
Americans and especially American conservatives simply do not understand how woke, leftist, controlled and spineless Europeans have become
They are too far gone.
The Irish of Ireland are lost forever. Nuclear Wokelears.
There has to be perpetual DUI stops...
Ireland will probably reinstate the death penalty for one time only use.
The left takes guns away from non-violent citizens while deliberately leaving them in the hands of violent criminals.
Yup. It’s a lost cause of a country, and I’ve heard in my line of work that the fags prefer to go to the isle because it’s a lib bastion outside the US. Unless the cop showed his weapon on social media, then his neighbors obviously snitched on him.
Ireland has been full Stalinist for years now.
Ended a handful of years ago.
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