Norman Taylor

But the way in which it works, oh, this happens, we send in this officer and everybody's running around with a gun or anything like that.

It's complete nonsense.

If you're an agent in the Secret Service, remember, I've got to go through checkpoints.

And these checkpoints are not like going to Heathrow.

You know, these are very tough and makeshift checkpoints.

The checkpoints can come up at any time on the journey you're traveling.

So if you are traveling with something,

that you could not get in a shop or you could not get on Amazon, you've got problems.

So don't carry anything unusual.

And you can imagine if you're carrying a gun, you're getting detained.

So the perception people have is so far from the actual reality.

More charisma, more relationship building than pulling guns and shooting people because that really doesn't happen.

Yeah, well, the funny thing was the imprisonment was in the UK and interrogation, I'm not allowed to name the market, but it was 2001.

You could probably work it out.

And I'll tell you the story behind both.

When I came out the services in 2014,

Many years later, I set up a gun range because I enjoy shooting.

Now, it was an airsoft gun range.

But somehow the police had thought I had illegal guns.

They thought, do you know the air pistols where the canister goes in the handle?