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Police 'Check' Gun, Bullet Pierces Courtroom Wall in Papua New Guinea

20 June 2008

TVNZ News / AAP

A Papua New Guinea court saw more evidence than it wanted when a handgun exhibit was accidentally fired, leaving a bullet hole in a courtroom wall. Police are now under investigation after the confiscated gun went off in Port Moresby District Court, in PNG's capital, on Thursday. The gun had been taken from senior public servant Anton Semoko, who was in court at the time to answer a charge of unlawfully possessing the weapon. PNG's National newspaper reported... (GunPolicy.org)

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