I can vouch on the basis of very precise personal experience that it
was easy to travel with a gun (in my case a loaded Browning 32 automatic
in my raincoat pocket) on both transatlantic and local flights. The same
goes for emeralds, say, between Medellin and New York, although I'm not
sure I understand your "Izumrudov" question. In neither case was it
"smuggling."

[EDNOTE. I hasten to admit that I was the one (not Sergei) who used "smuggling" in the subject heading to connect the concealed weapon with the bilingual pun. SES]

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