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Mafia 'Q' Arrest (1 viewing) (1) Guest
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TOPIC: Mafia 'Q' Arrest
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Mafia 'Q' Arrest 1 Year, 4 Months ago
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You guys have probably seen the article by now about this guy Guglielmo Ponari making guns for the Sicilian Mafia. I'm wondering what these homemade guns looked like, I wish they had published some pictures along with the article.
Link to article
Guglielmo Ponari, 63, started manufacturing hand-made pistols and machine guns for the Sicilian mafia in the early 1960s and reportedly watched the film 'From Russia With Love’ seven times.
The 1963 movie, starring Sean Connery, featured for the first time the actor Desmond Llewelyn as Q, whose gadgets and impatience with Bond’s flippant attitude became signature themes of future 007 films.
Ponari, a former plumber who became adept at engineering home-made firearms, made tiny but deadly guns shaped as fountain pens as well as more conventional pistols and machine guns.
He began his clandestine career in Germany, after emigrating from Italy, copying the design of Mausers, Lugers and Walthers.
Studying ballistics manuals, he also bought replica firearms and made them into functioning weapons.
Returning to Italy, he struck up links with the mafia, with police alleging that his weapons were used in murders, drug deals, ambushes and extortion attempts.
Police arrested him on Tuesday after raiding his home in Catania, in eastern Sicily, and finding a hidden cache of 24 home-made pistols, rifles, silencers and magazines.
He was charged with the unauthorised manufacture of firearms, the illegal ownership of explosives and receiving stolen goods.
It is the 12th time Ponari has been arrested in the last 40 years. In the 1970s he served three years in prison after being convicted of supplying weapons to Cosa Nostra gangsters who had moved into new territory in Turin, far from their base in Sicily.
In the 1980s police impounded a secret weapons factory in which he manufactured weapons for the Camorra mafia, based around Naples. |
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Re:Mafia 'Q' Arrest 1 Year, 4 Months ago
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Jessica wrote:
You guys have probably seen the article by now about this guy Guglielmo Ponari making guns for the Sicilian Mafia. I'm wondering what these homemade guns looked like, I wish they had published some pictures along with the article.
Link to article
Guglielmo Ponari, 63, started manufacturing hand-made pistols and machine guns for the Sicilian mafia in the early 1960s and reportedly watched the film 'From Russia With Love’ seven times.
The 1963 movie, starring Sean Connery, featured for the first time the actor Desmond Llewelyn as Q, whose gadgets and impatience with Bond’s flippant attitude became signature themes of future 007 films.
Ponari, a former plumber who became adept at engineering home-made firearms, made tiny but deadly guns shaped as fountain pens as well as more conventional pistols and machine guns.
He began his clandestine career in Germany, after emigrating from Italy, copying the design of Mausers, Lugers and Walthers.
Studying ballistics manuals, he also bought replica firearms and made them into functioning weapons.
Returning to Italy, he struck up links with the mafia, with police alleging that his weapons were used in murders, drug deals, ambushes and extortion attempts.
Police arrested him on Tuesday after raiding his home in Catania, in eastern Sicily, and finding a hidden cache of 24 home-made pistols, rifles, silencers and magazines.
He was charged with the unauthorised manufacture of firearms, the illegal ownership of explosives and receiving stolen goods.
It is the 12th time Ponari has been arrested in the last 40 years. In the 1970s he served three years in prison after being convicted of supplying weapons to Cosa Nostra gangsters who had moved into new territory in Turin, far from their base in Sicily.
In the 1980s police impounded a secret weapons factory in which he manufactured weapons for the Camorra mafia, based around Naples.
i hadnt seen this article yet thanks. man this guy mustve really been busy, creatin all kinds of weapons for the real Mafia.
Jessica wrote:
Ponari, a former plumber who became adept at engineering home-made firearms, made tiny but deadly guns shaped as fountain pens as well as more conventional pistols and machine guns.
in this guy's case, the pen is truly mightier than the sword...
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Re:Mafia 'Q' Arrest 1 Year, 4 Months ago
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Yeah really.. I find it rather impressive that more or less this has been his life's work. Hopefully some of those guns will find their way to a museum somewhere.
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Re:Mafia 'Q' Arrest 1 Year, 4 Months ago
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Interesting article Jessica - I remember Catania as being very bleak, I think you could hide there quite easily:-) Especially with so many 'friends' looking for armour!!
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