She's hotter than a pistol — and she finally got her gun.
The
NYPD has relented and granted a handgun permit to sexy Playboy Playmate
Stephanie Adams, who had claimed the Police Department was blocking her
application because she was awarded a $1.2 million jury verdict against
a cop.
Adams sashayed out of the John Jovino Gun Shop in Little
Italy on Friday, the proud hot mama of a Desert Eagle, .50-caliber
semiautomatic firearm.
Her next stop was 1 Police Plaza, where
she registered the gun with the NYPD license division. Adams, 45, did
not want to comment on the fight for her right to own a handgun permit,
but insisted all is good between her and the NYPD.
The
NYPD had shot down a gun permit application filed by ex-Playboy
Playmate Stephanie Adams, citing her numerous domestic incidents "as
both a complainant and a perpetrator," officials said.
“I am happy to move on and put the dramatic incident that occurred to me 10 years ago in my past,” she said.
Adams
was referring to her lawsuit against a cabbie who falsely claimed she
was armed with a gun and threatened to kill him after they argued, and
against Sgt. John Rajan, who violently tackled her.
Rajan admitted at the trial that there was no way she could have been hiding a gun in her skintight clothes.
Wedding
bells won't be ringing at the Playboy mansion as planned. Hugh Hefner,
85, and his betrothed bunny, Crystal Harris, 25, have called off their
wedding ceremony after a 'nasty' argument, TMZ.com reported June 14. The
multimillionaire mogul and Harris got engaged in December and already
mailed custom Swarovski crystal-encrusted invitations to more than 300
guests. But after their fight, Harris was so steamed she hightailed it
out of Hefner's pleasure palace, TMZ reported. The May-December couple
had been dating for more than a year, overlapping with Hefner's
relationship with the Shannon twins.
Last
year after the NYPD denied Adams a permit to keep a handgun in her home
and for target shooting, her lawyer Sanford Rubenstein suspected it
might be retaliation for the suit.
“The granting of this license
demonstrates that even if an individual is successful in an
excessive-use-of-force case against the NYPD as Stephanie was, if you
meet the requirements to get a gun license it will be granted,"
Rubenstein said.
The NYPD had cited a litany of reasons for rejecting the application.
In
an initial disapproval letter from the commanding officer of the
license division, Adams was told her application was rejected in part
because of sexy photos on the internet showing her wearing a skimpy
police uniform and holding a firearm with her “finger in a ‘nonsafe’
position in the trigger well.”
There was also the matter of some domestic incidents and an order of protection several years ago.
“Obviously,
the pistol and license division didn’t like the finger-on-the-trigger
issue,” said lawyer John Chambers, who guided Adams through the process
of filing a new application.
Playboy Playmate Stephanie Adams shooting at an outdoor gun range.
“That
picture was taken a long time ago in connection with military and 9/11
events she participated in that were like the old USO shows,” he said.
“There
were a couple of incidents in the remote past, and we dealt with all
the other issues and said, ‘This is not the person of so many years
ago.’ ”
Adams, who was Miss November 1992, once described herself
as a “Playboy trapped in a Playmate’s body,” according to her website.
She is married to a Manhattan chiropractor and has a 6-year-old son.
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