A US woman who flew to Australia with a gold-plated pistol in her luggage has been sentenced to a year in jail, despite claiming she brought it with her for protection.

Liliana Goodson pleaded guilty to charges of illegally importing an unauthorised firearm and illegally importing ammunition.

On Monday, the 30-year-old was sentenced in Sydney’s Downing Centre local court to the 12-month jail term, of which four months will be served in full-time custody.

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That seems like a fair amount of time. That lady has some lessons to learn

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But… the precious!

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Makes sense. That thing was op, they tried limiting it with only holding one shot, but it was an auto kill if you hit with it. Throwing knives was much more fun.

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Prox mines was my jam just cuz you could be such an asshole with it by mining spawns for chain kills.

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I was a fan of the grenade launcher since you could bounce it off of walls.

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Slappers Only is all they have to play in prison.

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When asked where she planned to store the gun while she was in Australia, she indicated under a vehicle’s passenger seat, the court was told…

Oh yeah that’ll calm down those pricks.

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“despite claiming she brought it with her for protection.”

What an odd way to word that from the writer?

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Yea, it reads as though that would be a totally reasonable defense but she had more nefarious aims and was lying.

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I don’t believe that is a legal reason for a gun licence in Australia, well at least in my state. You can get a licence to own a gun if you need it for entertainment purposes

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Based on the characterization from the article, I don’t think she has too much going on upstairs.

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