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Retired NYPD cop living in Ireland triggers massive raid over his old gun
Nypost ^ | 04/30/2022 | By John Aidan Byrne

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; europe; euroweenies; facebook; gun; ireland; nypd; omgagun; raid
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To: Husker24

The good ones came here.


21 posted on 04/30/2022 1:15:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Deaf Smith

Wise decision.

Plus, all of those boating accidents...


22 posted on 04/30/2022 1:16:09 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”

George Orwell

23 posted on 04/30/2022 1:21:02 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But yet gangsters there are free to roam about doing their thing.


24 posted on 04/30/2022 1:21:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: I want the USA back

‘Cuz that’d be racist.


25 posted on 04/30/2022 1:22:57 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The global communists are on the march... Unopposed...
They leave no stone unturned in making sure that the serfs are constantly reminded to:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...

26 posted on 04/30/2022 1:40:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: max americana

Yep, an Irish priest of my acquaintance says he’ll never go back . . . believes the island is demon-possessed. Wouldn’t surprise me.


27 posted on 04/30/2022 1:44:08 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Deaf Smith

I used to post “Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk® Radio Network”, on Sunday afternoons, 2013 - 2015, but stopped.


28 posted on 04/30/2022 1:50:32 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Back when males were Men their self respect and manly pride would not have allowed such a cowardly chicken-shit display. Someone would have stepped around, knocked on the door and inquired about the gun. Sheesh. It’s embarrassing that these pussies don’t even realize that they should be ashamed of themselves. They probably think they’re living on the edge.


29 posted on 04/30/2022 1:51:11 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

He didn’t a friend of his did


30 posted on 04/30/2022 1:51:27 PM PDT by roving
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That does it - screw Ireland


31 posted on 04/30/2022 1:58:53 PM PDT by chingatchgook
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To: BrexitBen

Have these cops no favorite pastimes?


32 posted on 04/30/2022 2:07:18 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( "The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Swanlinbar, County Cavan:


33 posted on 04/30/2022 2:10:36 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Brits and Irish are off the hook over guns - it is insanity really.


34 posted on 04/30/2022 2:14:19 PM PDT by databoss
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To: AnAmericanMother
an Irish priest of my acquaintance says he’ll never go back . . . believes the island is demon-possessed.

When I was there perhaps 20 years ago, I stopped at a nice little hotel in Kells merely to ask directions. When the proprietress heard my accent, she launched into a bitter tirade about George W. Bush. Warming to her task, she shouted, "When you go back, you march right over there and tell him I said so!"

Many Europeans simply cannot envision a country larger than their little towns. I had to suppress a strong urge to laugh right in her face.

Instead, I said, "Of course! I'll go right over to the White House and let him know just how you feel!" My companion and I turned and went out, got in the car, shut the doors, started the engine, rolled out of there and laughed so hard!

35 posted on 04/30/2022 2:21:29 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: AnAmericanMother

With the turn about in the abortion laws, possessed it is.


36 posted on 04/30/2022 2:30:21 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Simple reason: the warrant was served by a female cop: she’s the one that organized that ridiculously oversized raiding force.

If a male cop had been tasked, he’d likely have called the guy and asked to check out old pistol for him over a beer.


37 posted on 04/30/2022 2:35:35 PM PDT by Chainmail (99.36% of all statistics are made up on the spot)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; NobleFree

A police colleague of mine was of Irish heritage and had long-planned to move to Ireland upon retirement. Alas, as a smoker, he never made it. All the while I’m 23 years into my own retirement.

BTW: There’s no smoke that is good for you.

None.


38 posted on 04/30/2022 3:16:41 PM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: Gen.Blather

Weird culture. That’s the nicest way I can say it.


39 posted on 04/30/2022 3:32:25 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He should have retired in Arizona, Idaho, Florida or Texas, amongst other American states.


40 posted on 04/30/2022 3:59:18 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Greenie weenie ecofreaks in Europe and the USA are responsible for this war.)
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