NATO summit ends with awkward parting gift

Okay, picture this for a second.You just touched down after a long international flight.You're exhausted.You get off the plane, you open your bag, and you discover that unbeknownst to you, surprise, inside your bag for the entire flight was this.A revolver, a giant gun, a .357 Magnum, and six live rounds of ammunition.You had no idea.

Travel nightmare, right?What do you do?

This is exactly what happened to the prime minister of Belgium last week on his return home from the NATO summit that was just held in Turkey.It turns out that Turkey's somewhat eccentric prime minister decided to give all the world leaders who came to the NATO summit a gift bag to take home.But he did not mention that in the gift bag there was a fully functional gun and live ammunition.That led to all sorts of complications for the departing NATO leaders, with this very awkward party favor.Belgium's prime minister, he's the one who had no idea he was traveling with the gun.He apparently handed it off to airport security in Brussels and then just walked away.

The prime ministers of Sweden and the Netherlands apparently both thought to check their gift bags before they got on their flights home.They both then left the guns at their respective embassies in Turkey.The gift to the leader of the Netherlands, that one's going to be disabled per Dutch law.Canada announced that their gift gun will also be decommissioned.They say they transferred Prime Minister Mark Carney's personalized Turkish six -shooter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in case the Mounties want to play with it.But they left the ammunition in Turkey.

He didn't take the bullets.For some unexplained reason, the British government says Prime Minister Keir Starmer's personalized gun came not with just six bullets, but with 500.Why did he get 500 bullets?The British government says that Keir Starmer left both the gun and the boxes of courtesy bullets in Turkey.We reached out to the White House tonight to ask whether President Trump also got one of these guns.And if so, what did he do with it?

We haven't heard back.I'll tell you a little bet I made with the staff.If it turns out he left it on the wrong Air Force One, I'm going to have to buy everybody tacos.Watch this space.