News.com.au: An American traveller has been jailed for smuggling a 24-carat gold-plated gun worth $2000 into Australia in her hand luggage.
Liliana Goodson, 29, faced Sydney Downing Centre Court on Monday after pleading guilty to two charges of intentionally importing a prohibited firearm and prohibited ammunition.
She was arrested at Sydney airport on April 23 last year after Australian Border Force officers discovered a custom Colt 45-style pistol hidden in her hand luggage.
The weapon was discovered after the luggage passed through an X-ray machine at the busy airport. more
I need one of dem.
Some one should be locked up for life for wrecking a perfectly good 1911. Geez. And oh by the way, please keep that freak in the Land Down Under.
Holy crap, did you see her picture? What a frickin mess! Keep her down under is right!
@ Bad_Brad TUESDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2024, 14:05 AT 2:05 PM
They’re ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol.
I read that she (?) was taking clown classes.
Looks as though she (?) doens’t need the classes.
It appears someone put a bag over her head and she sharted in it. They should have gilded her.
How in the heck did she get a gun that was in her hand luggage on a plane to begin with? WTF?
It is difficult to conceive of the level of stupidity necessary to fsck things up as badly as she fscked them up. Difficult, but not impossible.
p.s. That includes herself.
Annie Oakley owned a Stevens Model 44 in 25-20 Single shot that had a gold plated receiver. Not 25-20 Winchester, which is fairly common yet. I don’t believe she had ever fired it. I’m not sure that many of these gold plated firearms are ever actually used. Arabs are drawn to them like flies to a stock yard, ghetto rats and drug cartel bosses seem to favor them. I’m not a fan.
I did a half nickel Winchester 1890 and had friends scratching their head when it was in its fetal stages and they were asking where it was headed. I told them that if they had daughters, they would understand. Surprisingly enough, it is one of those rare times that flamboyant turned out in my eyes to be as good or better in practice, than in theory. It’s become something of a favorite around here, guys want me to drag out so they can handle it. Between the nickle and rust bluing, it’s also probably going to look good for a long time.
^^^Dr Riff^^
Was thinking the same.
Good job, TSA! More and more, you display your irrelevancy and uselessness.
The day that PDJT47 disbands you will be a joyous occasion indeed.
(ya need to learn how to code)
@President Elect etc. — The day a bunch of TSA apes take up coding is the day I stop buying software. Or even updating software.
I own a Colt SSA nickel plated, Walnut grips. A sharp looking gun. Colt billed it as a “Collectors Item” when I purchased new. About 30 years ago. 45 Long. I shoot the shit out of it and the gun still looks brand new. Actually the best Colt I’ve ever owned.
So, it wasn’t in her handbag until after it was searched?
SAA?
Probably worth more than her 1911…
Crap! I have a blued 1911 that I wouldn’t take 2 grand for….
Anymouse
I think it was for my 14th birthday dad bought me a Ruger Single Six with the convertible 22 mag cylinder. I still have it. If you still have the box those things came in, they go for over 3k. The good old days. Bought it at a hardware store. Handed the guy $69.00 and walked out with it. Like a sack of potatoes.
Having a gun for a showpiece is like having a $3K bottle of scotch – they’re for collecting, not using – which is pointless in my not so humble opinion.
However, this moron probably just bought it because of her DEI or parent’s income in order to look ‘cool’ or something…
“Crap! I have a blued 1911 that I wouldn’t take 2 grand for…”
That looks like an old M1911. A failure to feed waiting to happen. A good reliable 1911 will start out at about $2,000.00 these days.
… and, she probably went to Aussie-land to escape Trump.
@Brad — I do love the little anecdotes of how things were in the good old days. Mine is that I bought my Browning Hi-Power in downtown Washington, D.C. Atlas Sporting Goods was the name of the place. The Browning is such a dangerous and evil killing machine, the D.C. govt wouldn’t even let me grandfather it in when they got home rule a few years later and banned handguns altogether. Why? Any handgun capable of holding more than 12 rounds had to be PERMANENTLY modified to limit the capacity. Yeah, right, how do you permanently limit the capacity of a magazine fed pistol? Unpossible!
So I moved to Maryland. That, of course, didn’t turn out to be such a smart move in the long run, but it was better than D.C. back then.
p.s. That pistol wears the original walnut checkered grips almost all the time, but I occasionally slap on a pair of mother of pearl monstrosities simply because I like to see the aghast reactions when I show it off that way. 🤣
@ Bad_Brad TUESDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2024, 14:58 AT 2:58 PM
My nickel plated Colt Frontier Scout single action was stolen in the early 1980’s. About three or four months later a lady down the street knocks at the door and said her neighbor said I had lost some guns in a burglary. She said there was a gun under her topiary and she was afraid to touch it. It had laid out all winter and didn’t suffer even one little bit. The wax/grease from the CB Long Zimmer Patrone loads must have protected the bore.
I called my insurance company and let them know it had been recovered and offered to reimburse them for the value. It was part of a two gun set, presentation case all of the bullshit that goes with it. IIRC, they had me send them a check for $60 or $75 or something like that. They gave me ~$2K for the boxed set. I liked the 45 real well, but we really got a lot more enjoyment out of the 22. I would buy bags of plastic cowboys and Indians and set them up in my Outers bullet trap in the fire place next to the TV while watching VHS tapes of western movies and playing along. My girlfriend, who would complain if you hung her with a velvet rope, was always nagging at us about something that was none of her business in the first place. She found reason to bitch about that too. Couldn’t stand to see anyone else having a good time.
I still have it, it’s a fan favorite. Other than some of the finish gone off the grips, it is the same as when I got it.
Recalling that got me pining for the days of my youth, so I went online and Zimmer Patrone, which means Room Cartridge or parlor load, is still available. CCI just call it 22 Long Low Noise now. It’s like 700 fps, about the same as a pellet gun.
Uncle Al
Browning Hi-PowerS ARE SUCH SWEET WEAPONS. I think Browning probably realized some improvement he could have made on his 1911 design and incorporated them into the High Power.
Willy just picked up an SA-35. Springfield’s knock off with a couple improvements. We were talking off line comparing these old steel guns vs Tupperware.
Anyway I thought you were going to break my heart and tell us at the end that you had to sell the gun. I was already tearing up. LOL. I’m glad you still have it.
” I do love the little anecdotes of how things were in the good old days.”
I was actually closer to 12 when dad bought me that gun. It came home, went into my night stand drawer with the ammo stacked on top of the box. Imagine the authorities finding out about that today. But I think we were raised a lot different back then. Obviously so.
M act of self induced stupidity, she should have plenty of time to contemplate the error of her ways.
JDHasty
A quality Nickel plate is actually a damn good coating. It will miss color due to the elements. But a little elbow grease and it come right back. Just a little too flashy for most guns. Not SAA’s though.
@ Bad_Brad TUESDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2024, 16:11 AT 4:11 PM
I remember getting a penny for the left rear foot of a gopher, then buying 22 ammo out of a fish bowl at the feed store at the elevator. We trapped the gophers for money to buy 22 shells. Then if you had a whole box of 50 you were the envy of every kid at school. When I had a brick of 500 it was set up in my bedroom on a shrine, to be worshipped and looked at in awe. I think a box of ammo was like 25¢ and a brick was a dollar. Singles were two for 3¢ and a case was unimaginable back then. I just bought a case of 22 Shorts for ~$500
@ Bad_Brad TUESDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2024, 16:56 AT 4:56 PM
True that. It doesn’t work on most guns. Where it doesn’t work on work, it really works well.
My daughter got to trade in her color case Winchester 1890 for the half nickel one. My son said that was no fair, so that means I need to do at least one more half nickel one. I draw the line at half nickel, by god if I didn’t and made a full nickel one like he wants that would only serve to further the arms race. My daughter wants everyone to have nice guns… just so long as hers is nicer.
Where it does work, it works really well.
She looks more than stupid enough to try a stunt like that. Keep her Aussies, please?
Says she registered it in Alabama. Probably not a resident.
If you ever lived in Alabama (especially around Mobile) there are some of the most beautiful women, ever, in the world…AND, they absolutely do not need to bear tattoos nor carry gold-plated firearms to Australia.