Prison guard No. 11 – is he licensed to carry that 9mm automatic weapon under his jacket?
Paranoid Island: the president is driven around by a prison guard on secondment from the prisons and carrying a 9mm automatic weapon. The chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology is driven around by a soldier on secondment from the army, who may or may not be armed.
Since I uploaded that post this morning about Mark Spiteri, prison guard No. 11, who is on secondment from the prisons as Marie Louise Coleiro Preca’s chauffeur, and who routinely carries a 9mm automatic weapon beneath his jacket, I have received definite confirmation that this is in fact the case.
The person who gave me this beyond-dispute confirmation also told me that it is “highly unlikely” that he is licensed to carry that weapon or any weapon at all.
Nobody can carry a firearm without a licence to do so, and the licence is specific to the firearm. It should go without saying that running around with a 9mm automatic or semi-automatic weapon is against the law, even if you are driving Marie Louise Coleiro Preca around.
Actually, that should be especially if you are driving the head of state around, because breaking the law at that level is far more serious.
I hope Jason Azzopardi, the Opposition spokesman on these matters, will now raise the matter in parliament, for this has gone way beyond a joke.
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Are they all copying House of Cards? What has happened?
House of Cards? In the end, it was Corder himself who shot Urquhart.
Urquhart appears to be a role-model for Muscat – ambitious, ruthless and ready to rid himself of anybody deemed to stand in his way and possibly uncovering his schemes.
As you said, it was one of his underlings who found the right occasion to finish him off. If I remember correctly Corder did it from the same place from where the evil man had disposed of his main female victim – the rooftop of the House of Commons.
No it a realistic veep.
A prison guard, how nice, he must know most of criminal lawyer Mallia’s work erm… clients then.
Is there a reason why professional drivers are instead not employed to ferry the President, PM, ministers etc. around? Is secondment an ingenious way of paying the annointed a superior salary while doing a cushier job?
I understand that overtime in these positions is very substantial and as we have seen one can always run his errands while on the clock.
Or actually join in the fan run. Sorry fun run.
It would be interesting if we were to see a log of the miles done by the driver of the Chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology.
How much travelling around does that job involve, and I am talking about legitimate travelling here?
Unless of course the master would like to keep tabs on the chairman while our taxes cover the cost.
Mela kemm qed jibżgħu! Kemm għandhom dnubiet?
Ghax Malta qed taghmlu ageb! Kull pajjiz fejn tidhol sigurta ikun u Armati. U just so you know, licenzjati!
Jista’ jkun li kull pajjiz fejn tidhol sigurta ikunu armati. Imma f’pajjizna jidher li f’dawn l-ahhar sentejn inhasset l- htiega. Fi zmien il-PN hadd ma kellu theddid. Xi haga tinten hemm biex iridu din is-sigurta kollha.
This is somewhat of a technicality but may be important – you say that the 9mm pistol is semi-automatic or automatic – a fully automatic pistol, i.e. a machine pistol, is not the sort of weapon which is casually available. Some personnel of the US Navy, for instance, are supplied with Glock 18s, which are 9mm machine pistols. I would be very surprised if a prison guard/chauffeur is in possession of a machine pistol. It is most likely semi-automatic, like most handguns.
It’s not a technicality at all (nor a gun fetish, ladies and gentlemen).
The Malta Police Corps and the AFM do not use machine pistols as a matter of course.
The Rapid Intervention Unit (aka The 9/3/13th King Manuel’s Own) has a few Beretta 93R in its arsenal. But it’s not as if you can hand one to any old rozzer-cum-driver and expect him to use it correctly.
And an erratum corrige: The shiny new SMGs sported by Police officers are CZ Scorpion Evo 3, not MPXs. Send me to the Tower.
I don’t who you are, and don’t give a shit neither. What can I say Try him out and see for yourself if he’s capable or not!
Ah, so he does carry an automatic pistol, and he’s a crack shot with it. You just gave the game away there. Colleague of yours, is he?
Mela to start off I’m just a civilian no one important. And second I assume, if they are police or army why not carry one? If they have a license which they most likely have and are surely trained well. Another thing, police personnel carry Glocks and are not automatic.
We don’t know yet what kind of automatic it is because, thankfully, he hasn’t drawn it out on anyone yet.
Are they afraid of a high-profile kidnapping?
China or ISIS?