He explained his case to border police officers at Cagliari airport by saying that he had found the machine gun cartridge he was hiding in his luggage while walking along the beach near Quartu. However, he was unable to provide any information about the two switchblades he had in his luggage or the hundreds of cartridges found in his home. A fifty-year-old Sardinian man, resident in Emilia-Romagna, has been reported to the border police.
He was leaving Sardinia after a vacation, and while searching his luggage, the police found a Browning M2 submachine gun cartridge and two switchblades . Searches were immediately launched at the homes where he had stayed in Sardinia and Emilia-Romagna.
The officers from the Quartu Police Station found nothing, but their colleagues from Emilia found hundreds of 9x19 cartridges and two air rifles in the house. The ammunition and the two rifles were seized .
(Unioneonline)
