{"id":8025,"date":"2026-07-14T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/8025\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:30:08","slug":"gun-gifted-to-carney-at-nato-summit-needs-review-to-go-in-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/8025\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun gifted to Carney at NATO summit needs review to go in museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National War museum is pictured in Ottawa on June 3, 2024. A spokesperson for the Canadian War Museum and Canadian Museum of History, said the museums are aware of Carney\u2019s comments and appreciate his interest in preserving and sharing objects of historical significance, while experts say they don’t expect the gifted revolver to end up in a museum.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s national war and history museums say they would have to conduct a review before they could display a personalized revolver and ammunition given to Prime Minister Mark Carney at this year\u2019s NATO summit in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave each visiting NATO leader a handgun with their name engraved on it as a gift at the conclusion of the recent summit in Ankara.<\/p>\n

Carney told reporters last week he thought the revolver could live somewhere like the Canadian War Museum.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s interesting and it relates to NATO and the bigger picture of that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to find the best home for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prime minister said last week the revolver was with the RCMP and, since it\u2019s not a legal handgun in Canada, it was rendered unable to fire. Global Affairs Canada said the ammunition was left behind in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Carney to attend NATO summit in Turkey ahead of Middle East visit<\/a><\/p>\n

Avra Gibbs Lamey, a spokesperson for the Canadian War Museum and Canadian Museum of History, said the museums are aware of Carney\u2019s comments and appreciate his interest in preserving and sharing objects of historical significance.<\/p>\n

She said there hasn\u2019t been a formal offer to donate the revolver yet and an official evaluation process hasn\u2019t started.<\/p>\n

Lamey added that her team is working with the Prime Minister\u2019s Office to ensure the gun is \u201cpreserved appropriately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thida Ith, a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada, said that based on guidance from Canadian authorities, the government will look for an appropriate place for the gift, which could be a Canadian museum. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not in a position to provide further details regarding a potential recipient institution or timing,\u201d said Ith.<\/p>\n

Roy Norton, adjunct assistant professor of political science and public service at the University of Waterloo and former chief of protocol for Canada at Global Affairs Canada, said he doesn\u2019t expect to see the gun displayed in a museum.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019ll end up in a vault in the basement at Global Affairs Canada, never to see the light of day,\u201d Norton said. \u201cI would be awfully surprised if the war museum or any other Canadian museum would feature this item. It has no military or historical significance for Canada. It\u2019s kind of an oddity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prime ministers often get gifts that don\u2019t end up in on display in museums, he said, adding he doesn\u2019t remember any of Canada\u2019s leaders ever receiving a gun.<\/p>\n

Who does Mark Carney think we are, anyway?<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt certainly didn\u2019t happen when I was chief of protocol and I am unaware of it ever having happened beforehand,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of an unusual gift but it is a NATO summit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under Canada\u2019s conflict of interest rules, any gift worth more than $200 received by a politician must be publicly declared, while any gift worth more than $1,000 must be forfeited to the Crown.<\/p>\n

A handout photo from the office of Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda shows the gun he received from Erdogan \u2014 a Gumusay .357 revolver with Nauseda\u2019s name engraved on the barrel and the Turkish crescent moon and star on the frame, with a small plaque on the grip that says \u201cAnkara Summit.\u201d<\/p>\n

A card in the gift box says this was the first type of revolver manufactured in Turkey in the 1990s and that the commemorative firearms were made by the Turkish firm MKE.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Nauseda\u2019s office said his revolver is to be exhibited in the presidential palace, along with many other gifts given to the head of state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The National War museum is pictured in Ottawa on June 3, 2024. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[107,90,108,80,78,109,46,77,97,98,93,79,76,103,105,102,96,88,120,81,82,95,91,92,85,110,86,115,116,118,113,117,111,114,83,100,101,50,99,112,89,104,106,94,87,84,119],"class_list":["post-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}