Millionaire arrested in NYC for defending his home
ROS sends us a link to The Blaze article about George Bardwil, a millionaire who lives in New York City. He confronted a burglar in his home Thursday night with his bodyguard’s gun. I guess the bodyguard leaves the gun legally registered to him at his employer’s house. Anyway, Bardwil called the police after he frightened away the burglar and turned over the video of him during his confrontation, which the police promptly used as evidence to lock up Bardwil for using a gun that isn’t registered to him.
Bardwil says that he’s afraid to sleep in his house without a gun. He has good reason to be scared. Barely two years ago, he lost $300k to armed robbers while he was tied up and threatened.
“I was with a couple friends. There was a buzz at the door. I assumed it was somebody I knew,” Bardwil told The Post in a blow-by-blow account of the 2:45 p.m. robbery at his first-floor apartment on East 51st Street near Second Avenue, where the creeps swiped $300,000 worth of designer watches, diamond jewelry and cash.
“There was a large black male with a gun [and an accomplice]. We were all tied up and relieved of our watches, wallets, money,” Bardwil said, adding that the crooks clearly knew he had video-surveillance equipment concealed in a closet — they dismantled it first — and a safe hidden in a drawer beneath his bed.
I wonder why he doesn’t have a gun registered in his name. He’s lucky that he didn’t shoot the burglar. New York would throw away the key.
Category: Guns
They are nuts in NYC. I used to work for TSA and saw some goofy stuff when it came to Port Authority cops and guns. For example, if you were flying from point A to point B and had to make an intermediate stop in NYC, you better hope that you don’t get stuck there. Or you better make sure that the cops tell you how you can store your weapon legally. More than once, I saw people get stuck in the City and simply take their checked bag to the hotel or just with them, not knowing what the law was. When they tried to check in again the next day, as a good citizen they declared that they had a weapon in their checked baggage. They were promptly arrested. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Go…to…jail.
@1. Wow, that’s crazy.
he must have been donating to the wrong party!
I read he is pending trial for assaulting his ex-wife, which may be why he doesn’t have a handgun registered in his name. Just a guess.
Such is life in the liberal cities.
Love this conservative country Southern Life.
Other then being a libtard sheeple, WHY is this millionaire not joined the diaspora and still residing in New Jerk City?
The real question is, why would anyone in their right mind want to live in NYC?
Oh, never mind. There are people who love it the way I love Chicago. I just don’t want to live in Chitown.
I don’t care. He’s stupid, most likely a libtard, and he’s living in Nanny B’s Big Apple. Tough. Send him to Riker’s Island with the rest of the crims who illegally possess guns in NYC.
@5 Amen brother. Nothing like walking out my back door and dumping a couple 30 rounders out of the AR.
The bad thing about the cities like New York, L.A. DC and Chicago is that the morons that have ruined those cities are also the ones responsible for wrecking the country with fraudulent votes to elect o—-shitforbrains !!!
Hey, there’s a song in there somewhere !!!
The article says he keeps his bodyguards gun, and sleeps with it (a loaded .40 Sig Sauer) under his bed – because he’s scared.
Another member of the “sheeple” crowd in Nanny Bloombergs community.
I know this guy personally and he’s a workaholic. He gives to the poor and treats his employees with dignity. Unfortunately he has old school values and still believes everyone is good. People always take advantage of him all the time. Like the ex that married him at 23, now wanting money from this 67-year-old guy. The poor guy was tied up with a gun to his head wouldn’t you be scared also.