Hey! Those are my guns!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on November 10th, 2008

On SixShot.com, you can read a brief summary of the recent legal trouble for Katt Williams. On Thursday, his red Escalade was parked in Manhattan with no tags. It and his nearby Mercedes Benz “party van” were discovered to contain three guns. Six weapons charges and $25,000 bail later, Williams was released and onstage an hour late for his appearance at Carnegie Hall.

This also explains why Williams stiffed Conan the other night, as some of our astute readers informed us.

This marks the second time Williams has been arrested on a gun charge. The comedian was found with a handgun in his suitcase during a security check at the Los Angeles International Airport in 2006.

What we find most startling about the story is not that Williams might be a gun fancier (and, we assume, an ardent defender of the 2nd Amendment), but that he was booked to perform at Carnegie Hall! When we hear Carnegie Hall, we think Yitzhak Perlman or Judy Garland or Duke Ellington or Lenny Bruce. Katt Williams?

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