Posted on 07/15/2026 4:54:54 AM PDT by marktwain
On July 8, 2026,Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave presents to the other leaders of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member nations. The gifts were given at the meeting in Turkey. The present appears to be a rare Gümüsay .357 revolver, which was made by the Turkish company MKE about 30 years ago. Giving presents to NATO leaders is not unusual.
Giving firearms to leaders of other countries was not unusual before WWI. Over a hundred years of demonization of civilian ownership of firearms has made it unusual. The revolver came in a presentation box which seems to have a lower compartment. What might be in the lower compartment has not been revealed.
While most of these revolvers will never be fired, the present has been reported to include live ammunition. The revolver presented to Prime Minister Kier Starmer is reported to have included 500 rounds of ammunition and a cleaning kit. This is a wonderful joke and poke in the eye to England, which has outlawed the possession of handguns by its citizens.
Reaction to the gift varied considerably by country. Some leaders are waiting to have the revolver deactivated before sending it to their home, others are having it processed by their customs services. All appear to be careful to follow the legal procedures their governments have in place. It appears all the revolvers are identical except for the engraving. They were likely made in one run of presentation revolvers for such purposes. As such, they may be one of the rarest of production revolvers in existence.
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Ain’t nobody’s business but the Turks.
The Turkish manufacturer MKE, among other pistols, made a fine copy of the 380 caliber Walther PPK. That pistol appeared in the original James Bond films.
(Not sure if they made a copy of the Walther PP).
The Turks showed the Euros for the cucks they are. We are better forming an alliance with the Ottomans and Russians than the globalists.
So it looks to me like just another case of liberal virtue-signaling.
Anyway, here we see Starmer after being told he will be given a revolver as a gift.
Poor fellow!
Maybe Turkish President Erdogan is a Beatles fan. He chose to comemorate the 65th year since Paul McCartney and Co. released that hot pistol of an album.
Maybe it’s true, that happiness is a warm gun!
Did he faint?
Starmer would have taken a dildo as a gift though.
They need UZI’s.
What a thoughtful gift. If your palace guards are unable to repel a close-up assassination attempt, the target has the option of self-defense.
But it is perhaps not wise to exercise that option.
Very nice photo! -— His bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Dike%C3%A7
Free Republic really needs some kind of “funny joke” warning system.
Your comment was so funny that I actually spit some coffee on my keyboard.
😀
He was hoping for "The Anal Intruder" from Top Secret....if you know, you know.
I hope someone gives weapons to the Greek Cypriots...
Reagan wore a concealed gun as a candidate in his 1976 campaign, carried a gun as President, and after his two terms were over until his illness had the Secret Service remove his gun in 1994.
Reagan had broken up a robbery with a .45 as a younger man and of course spent years in the horse cavalry before WWII.
We can’t have guns here! This is a military alliance!
Why just the Turks and the Russians? Why not the mullahs too?
Because they are dead.
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