HOT AS A PISTOL!
NYPD: Denied for violent history Model: It’s retaliation for old suit
SHE’S TOO HOT to pack heat.
The NYPD has shot down an ex-Playboy Playmate’s application for a gun permit, citing her numerous domestic incidents “as both a complainant and a perpetrator,” the Daily News has learned.
Stephanie Adams, Playboy’s Miss November in 1992, claims she’s been put through the wringer by the NYPD because she scored a $1.2 million lawsuit win in 2012 against cops who roughed her up.
Adams was informed in a letter recently from Thomas Prasso, the director of the NYPD’s License Division, that her application for a permit to keep a gun in her apartment was disapproved based on the domestic incidents between 2003 and 2013, as well as false statements she made when she had denied obtaining orders of protection in the past.
Adams, 45, responded with a point-by-point rebuttal of the division’s concerns, to no avail.
“Filing complaints many years ago against stalkers, rather than fighting them, hurting them or allowing them to hurt myself, is in fact a sign of ‘good moral character’ because I handled those problems peacefully (and) legally,” Adams wrote the department’s pistol license division.
The NYPD cited the dispute with a cabbie that led to her successful suit, in addition to complaints to police involving a roommate and her current husband. But Adams, of lower Manhattan, said she and her husband have worked through their differences and today are a “loving couple.”
In an initial disapproval letter from Deputy Inspector Michael Endall, commanding officer of the license division, Adams was told her application was rejected in part because of sexy pics on the Internet showing her wearing a skimpy police uniform and holding a firearm.
“You are photographed holding what appears to be an NYPD authorized Smith & Wesson 5946, with your finger in a ‘nonsafe’ position in the trigger well,” Endall stated in the letter obtained by The News.
Adams said she was shocked the photo was being used against her in the gun-application process, just like city’s lawyers had tried to do in her lawsuit. Adams had sued a cab driver who falsely claimed she was armed with a gun during a 2006 dispute, and the cops who tackled her. The cop sheepishly admitted at the civil trial that she was wearing tight-fitting clothes and there was no place to hide a gun.
Adams said she is contemplating legal action to secure a permit. Her lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, said if the disapproval was retaliation for the lawsuit, she could file an appeal.
Adams said she wanted the guns for personal protection. Her husband, chiropractor Charles Nikolai, already has an NYPD permit to keep guns in their home and supports her application, according to official documents.
Adams also wants a permit so she can receive several guns bequeathed to her by her father, who died recently.