Royal Caribbean leaves no room for error when it comes to its policy on bringing firearms on board.
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All firearms and weapons, ammunition, explosives and incendiary devices are strictly prohibited. Firearms and weapons include, but are not limited to, the following items:
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Rifles
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Shotguns
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Pistols
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Revolvers, etc.
The cruise line does not even allow pretend guns and it’s very explicit there as well.
- All guns, replicas and ammunition include, but are not limited to, the following items:
- Guns, operational or replicas
- Ammunition of all types
- BB Guns
- Compressed Air Guns, including Paint Ball Guns
- Flare Guns
- Gun Lighters
- Gun / Firearms Parts
- Pellet Guns
- Spear Guns
- Starter Pistols
- Realistic Replicas of Firearms
If an item even looks like a gun, you can’t bring it on a Royal Caribbean ship. That’s a well-known rule, applying even to law-enforcement officers.
“We do not allow any guest (including law enforcement officers on vacation) to bring weapons onboard our vessel,” the company website makes clear.
“Law enforcement officers need to understand that they will be boarding a foreign flag vessel going to foreign countries. All weapons should be left at home, locked up in a vehicle if they are driving to the port, or turned over to a local office of Customs, police, FBI, etc. for safekeeping during the voyage.”
That did not stop one passenger from violating that rule, and the Facebook personality Jayson Judson had the full story.
Royal Caribbean passenger faces jail time
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A cruise passenger on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas has been arrested and faces up to a $3,000 fine and possible jail time as he was caught boarding the ship in Aruba with a firearm.
Many are left wondering: Did he have the firearm the previous four days on the ship? And if so, how did screening and port security in Fort Lauderdale miss the firearm when they routinely catch passengers with clothes steamers?
What do you think?
Royal Caribbean passengers respond
@PamelaGreen2073 summed up what most people were thinking.
“Scary,” she wrote.
Some doubted that the gun could have been brought on and off the ship.
“Seems unlikely it was on the ship prior to Aruba. Probably obtained in Aruba,” @DeniseG-nl20 posted.
@HelenandRidge1980 was shocked that this could happen.
“Wow, somebody didn’t do their job, most of the times you feel safe,” they wrote.
Others wondered how this could have been missed (which suggests it wasn’t and that the gun was brought on in Aruba.
“When they routinely catch passengers with clothes steamers,” @GingerWond1982 repeated.
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