The closest international airport to Cheb was the Karlovy Vary Airport (KLV) which was some 55km away. I guess we are spoiled in the US where most people at least on the East Coast live fairly close to some sort of airport. I am not too familiar with the west coast, so maybe they might have to drive a little further over there.  So after I picked up my van and loaded my drowsy partner I started on my way to Cheb. I had previously booked a hotel in Cheb while still in the states. I was surprised at how cheap really nice hotels were. When I booked a room at the Hotel Barbarossa it only set me back $80 and it included a free breakfast, WiFi and parking. While the rooms were somewhat plain, they were clean and comfortable. For a small extra fee paid under the table they allowed Jojo to sleep in the room with me, though I also had to pay an extra refundable security deposit in the eventuality that he made any messes.

After the long flight and drive I was quite tired, so I grabbed a bite to eat at a restaurant close by. Before I hit the hay I made Jojo comfortable with his pad and put out his water and food bowl. He halfheartedly ate his food  and then he plopped down on his pad and immediately fell asleep. I could feel his pain, so I immediately followed suit.

The next day after feeding Jojo and grabbing a quick breakfast we went out for a walk to get the lay of the land so to speak. Before we left the hotel room I switched out Jojo’s collar for his spiked one. I wasn’t sure why, but it just felt like the thing to do. I really didn’t think anyone would be dumb enough to try and grab a full grown mastiff by the neck, but you could never tell. Here is where I need to spend a little time discussing my preparations for going to the brothel. I have to admit that I meant only ill-will towards the madame at the brothel and any of her henchmen that worked with her when Yua was forced to work as a sex slave.

Thanks to my career choice as a cop and detective I had acquired considerable fire arm proficiency. During my tenure with the force I also acquired several guns. I had a concealed carry permit for a hand gun as well. The one thing that I had never done and that was to bring a gun on a commercial plane, so I was a little unsure of what steps I had to take.  After doing some research and with a few purchases I felt comfortable bringing one in my checked luggage. Below I have included some information taken directly from the TSA website.

You may transport unloaded firearms in a locked hard-sided container as checked baggage only. Declare the firearm and/or ammunition to the airline when checking your bag at the ticket counter. The container must completely secure the firearm from being accessed. Locked cases that can be easily opened are not permitted. Be aware that the container the firearm was in when purchased may not adequately secure the firearm when it is transported in checked baggage.

Contact AskTSA or TSA Contact Center with questions you have regarding TSA firearm regulations and for clarification on what you may or may not transport in your carry-on or checked baggage.

Firearms

• When traveling, comply with the laws concerning possession of firearms as they vary by local, state and international governments.
• If you are traveling internationally with a firearm in checked baggage, please check the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website for information and requirements prior to travel.
• Declare each firearm each time you present it for transport as checked baggage. Ask your airline about limitations or fees that may apply.
• Firearms must be unloaded and locked in a hard-sided container and transported as checked baggage only. As defined by 49 CFR 1540.5 a loaded firearm has a live round of ammunition, or any component thereof, in the chamber or cylinder or in a magazine inserted in the firearm. For civil enforcement purposes, TSA also considers a firearm to be loaded when both the firearm and ammunition are accessible to the passenger. For example, if an individual has a firearm in accessible baggage and ammunition in his/her pocket, or any combination where the individual has access to both, the firearm is considered “loaded” for purposes of assessing a civil penalty. Only the passenger should retain the key or combination to the lock unless TSA personnel request the key to open the firearm container to ensure compliance with TSA regulations. You may use any brand or type of lock to secure your firearm case, including TSA-recognized locks.
• Bringing  an unloaded firearm with accessible ammunition to the security checkpoint carries the same civil penalty/fine as bringing a loaded firearm to the checkpoint. You may find information on civil penalties at the Civil Enforcement page.
• Firearm parts, including magazines, clips, bolts and firing pins, are prohibited in carry-on baggage, but may be transported in checked baggage.
• Replica firearms, including firearm replicas that are toys, may be transported in checked baggage only.
• Rifle scopes are permitted in carry-on and checked baggage.

Ammunition

• Ammunition is prohibited in carry-on baggage, but may be transported in checked baggage.
• Firearm magazines and ammunition clips, whether loaded or empty, must be securely boxed or included within a hard-sided case containing an unloaded firearm. Read the requirements governing the transport of ammunition in checked baggage as defined by 49 CFR 175.10 (a)(8).
• Small arms ammunition (up to .75 caliber and shotgun shells of any gauge) must be packaged in a fiber (such as cardboard), wood, plastic, or metal box specifically designed to carry ammunition and declared to your airline.
• Ammunition may be transported in the same hard-sided, locked case as a firearm if it has been packed as described above. You cannot use firearm magazines or clips for packing ammunition unless they completely enclose the ammunition. Firearm magazines and ammunition clips, whether loaded or empty, must be boxed or included within a hard-sided, locked case. 
• Please check with your airline for quantity limits for ammunition.

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I had also purchased a silencer or suppressor for my pistol. I was quite surprised to see that it was perfectly legal to purchase one, as long as you had the proper documentation.

To purchase a silencer, your dealer will legally transfer the silencer to you with approval from the BATFE. You will need to decide if you want to purchase as an individual or through an NFA trust.

Now the final question that needed to be asked, was it even legal to bring a weapon into the Czech Republic? Since I wasn’t exactly coming to this country to use my gun for recreational purposes, I wasn’t that concerned about the legalities of having a gun in Cheb. I am assuming that most of my readers will not be dealing with any issues remotely like mine, so I will include some information on owning guns in the Czech Republic.

Gun laws in the Czech Republic in many respects differ from those in other European Union member states. The “right to acquire, keep and bear firearms” is explicitly recognized in the first Article of the Firearms Act. At the constitutional level, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms includes the “right to defend one’s own life or life of another person also with arms under conditions stipulated by law“.

In the Czech Republic, firearms are available to anyone, subject to acquiring a firearms license. Firearm licenses may be obtained in a way similar to a driving license; by passing a proficiency exam, medical examination and having a clean criminal record. Unlike in most other European countries, Czech firearms legislation also permits citizens to carry concealed weapons for self-defense. The most common reason for firearm possession by Czech gun owners is for protection, with hunting and sport shooting being less common. Additionaly, people can join government endorsed advanced shooting training courses with their privately owned firearms and become civilian reservist.

Article 64 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms

Czech Constitutional Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Article 64 states that “the right to defend own life or life of another person also with arms is guaranteed under conditions set out in the law.“

Media dubbed the provision “Czech Republic’s second amendment” both in connection with the protection of the right to keep and bear arms in the US constitution and due to the fact that before approval of this provision, the Czech Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms had only been amended once since adoption in 1992.

According to the Czech gun laws expert and attorney Tomáš Gawron the provision bears no resemblance to the American second amendment. Unlike its US counterpart, the Czech provision doesn’t stipulate a restraint on Government’s power, but only symbolically sets out significance of the mentioned right and otherwise leaves the Government a free hand in setting detailed conditions in law. By being mostly symbolic, the provision is more similar to the Article 10 of Mexican constitution. Also while the American second amendment centers on the right to keep and bear arms, the Czech provision deals primarily with right of personal defense, including with arms.

2002 Firearms Act

Article 1 Subsection 1 of the Czech Firearms Act

Cornerstones of current Czech gun law remain the same since the 1990s: precisely defined requirements that an applicant must meet in order to be granted a license. Once a person obtains the necessary license, the law is relatively permissive as regards both the type of firearms that become legally accessible, as well as possibility of their concealed carry for personal protection. At the same time, the issuing authority (police) firearm owners’ database is connected to information needed for a background check and red flags any incidents that may lead to loss of license requirements. Similarly, health clearance by the general practitioner is needed for periodical renewal of license (every ten years).

Under Act No. 119/2002 Coll. every citizen that meets the act’s conditions has the right to have firearms license issued and can then obtain a firearm. Holders of D (exercise of profession) and E (self-defense) licenses, which are also shall-issue, can carry up to two concealed firearms for protection.

Obtaining a license

An applicant applies for a gun license at a designated local office of the National police. If the conditions of age, qualification, health clearance, criminal integrity and personal reliability are met and a fee of 700 CZK (US$ 32.29) per type is paid, the license shall be issued in thirty days. The license must be renewed every ten years (no need to undergo qualification exam if the application is filed at least two months before termination of the previous license; health clearance still necessary).

Age

To obtain a B or C type license, the applicant must be at least 18 years old. Under special circumstances, the applicant need only be 15 if a member of a sporting club, or 16 if taught hunting in schools with such a curriculum. To obtain an A, D or E type license, the applicant must be 21.

Qualification

Obtaining the license requires passing a theoretical and practical exam.

• Theoretical exam: The theoretical exam consists of a written test of 30 multiple choice questions (Created and distributed by the Ministry of the Interior) with a maximum of 79 points possible. To pass the written exam, 67 points are needed for type A, 71 for type B or C, and 74 for type D or E. The test deals with the following issues:
  • knowledge of firearms legislation,
  • knowledge of legislation related to legitimate use of firearm (e.g. self-defense),
  • general knowledge of firearms and ammunition, and
  • first aid.
• Practical exam
  • Safe handling: this comprises
    • inspecting, whether the firearm is loaded (safely unloading),
    • field stripping as needed for clean-up,
    • preparation of firearm and ammunition for shooting, shooting, procedure of handling the firearm in case of malfunction, conclusion of shooting.
  • Touching the trigger, pointing in an other-than-safe direction or trying to field-strip a loaded gun (dummy round is used) results in the applicant failing the exam. Depending on the types of licenses sought, applicants may be asked to show their ability safely to manipulate multiple firearms (typically CZ 75 and/or CZ 82 pistol, bolt-action CZ 452 rifle and a double-barreled shotgun).
  • A shooting test, which requires specific scores dependent on the type of license applied for:
    • For the B type license it is 25m on rifle target (A4 sheet sized) with 4 out of 5 rounds hitting the target sheet shooting from a rifle (2 out of five for A type). .22 Long Rifle chambered rifle is used. Alternatively, an applicant can shoot a pistol on 50/20 pistol target at 10 m.
    • For the C type license, the applicant must fire at 25m with a rifle (same as cat. B) and also successfully hit the rifle target from the distance of 25m shooting from a shotgun (Usually double-barreled), 3 out of 4 rounds must hit the target (at least partially).
    • For the E type license, the applicant must successfully hit the international pistol target 50/20 (50 cm x 50 cm) from a distance of 10m (15m for D type license) shooting from a pistol, 4 out of 5 rounds must hit the sheet (2 out of 5 for A type).
  • In each of the cases above, the actual score is irrelevant; the projectiles simply have to hit the target sheet within the circles. Also in each case, the applicant is allowed 3 test shots to familiarise himself with the particular firearm used for the test. The shotgun is an exception to this, where only one round is allowed as a test shot.

A person can obtain any combination of the types at once, but must make his selections known before the exam and the highest score needs to be met. Typically, people obtain E and B type because these two types provide the best versatility (almost any firearm can be owned and carried concealed). The D type is required by law for members of the municipal police (members of the state police do not need a license for on-duty firearms) and does not itself permit private gun ownership (unless the person obtains at least one additional license type).

Health clearance

Applicant (license holder) must be cleared by his general practitioner as being fit to possess, carry and use a firearm. The health check includes probes into the applicant’s anamnesis (i.e. medical history) and a complete physical screening (including eyesight, hearing, balance). The doctor may request examination by a specialist in case he deems it necessary to exclude illnesses or handicaps stated in the respective governmental regulation. Specialist medical examination is obligatory in case of illnesses and handicaps that restrict the ability to drive a car.

Governmental Regulation No. 493/2002 Coll. divides the listed illnesses and handicaps into four groups, covering various issues from psychological and psychiatrical to eyesight and hearing (for example, the applicant must be able to hear casual speech over distance of 6 meters to be cleared for the E type). Generally, the regulation is more permissive when it comes to the license type A and B, and more strict with view to the other types, listing which illnesses and handicaps may curtail or outright prevent positive clearance by the general practitioner. The outcome of the medical examination may be either full clearance, denial, or conditional clearance that lists obligatory health accessories (glasses, hearing aid, etc.) or sets obligatory escort when armed (e.g. B – sport shooters with minor psychological issues, or with addiction habits cured more than three years prior to the health check).

Criminal integrity

The enactment specifies the amount of time that must elapse after a person is released from prison for serving time for particular groups of crimes. Ex-convicts punished for committing selected crimes, such as public endangerment, or participation in organized crime group or murder, if sentenced to more than 12 years imprisonment, may never fulfill this condition. There is a central registry of criminal offenses in the Czech Republic. The criminal integrity is reviewed notwithstanding any possible expungement of the records for other purposes.

• After being conditionally discharged, the criminal integrity is regained after the probation period ends or in 3 years in special cases
• After serving less than 2 years or being sentenced to different kind of punishment than imprisonment, the criminal integrity is regained after 5 years
• After being sentenced for 2 to 5 years, the criminal integrity is regained after 10 years
• After being sentenced for 5 to 12 years, the criminal integrity is regained after 20 years
• After being sentenced for more than 12 years (for defined crimes, such as murder, treason, etc.) the criminal integrity is never regained.

Conditional discharge does not count, only the original sentence.

Police may order temporary seizure of firearm license and firearms in case that the holder is charged with any intentional crime, or a negligent crime connected with breach of duties relating to possession, carrying or use of firearms or ammunition

Personal reliability

A person who verifiably excessively drinks alcohol or uses illegal drugs, as well who was repeatedly found guilty of specified misdemeanors (e.g. related to firearms, DUI, public order, etc.) in the preceding three years, is considered unreliable for the purposes of issuing a gun license. The police has the right to inquire information regarding these issues also from municipal authorities (misdemeanors are dealt with by municipal authorities and there is no central registry related to them).

Losing reliability is caused by:

• Committing a crime and being conditionally discharged, until the probation period ends.
• Excessive use of alcohol or addictive substances
• Committing multiple misdemeanors from specific segments of the law (Regarding Firearms, Explosives, Driving under influence, Czech Republic defense, public order, property and illegal hunting/fishing). Only one transgression in the last 3 years is tolerated. Other types of misdemeanors do not count to personal reliability criteria.

Police may order temporary seizure of firearm license and firearms in case that administrative proceedings against the holder are initiated for committing selected misdemeanors (e.g. carrying while intoxicated, refusing to undergo intoxication test while armed, shooting outside licensed range unless in self-defense).

Obtaining of a license by a foreigner

The law distinguishes foreigners according to their country of origin. For selected foreigners, a license is shall-issue as same as for Czech citizens, while for others it is a may-issue.

• Shall-issue
  • foreigners from countries of the EU, European Economic Area and Switzerland (in case of their being granted temporary or permanent residency, then also their family members)
  • foreigners from NATO countries
  • foreigners having been granted permanent residency in the Czech Republic and long-term EU residency or long-term residency in other state of EU and longterm residency in the Czech Republic (and their family members, if having been granted long-term residency)
  • persons having been granted international asylum in the Czech Republic
• May-issue
  • other foreigners (no appeal possible against decision of appropriate police department to deny permit)

Foreign born residents are treated equally in the eye of Czech law (see above), but proof of a lack of criminal record in their country of origin must be provided; persons having residence also in another EU country must provide documentation showing that they are allowed to own a firearm therein. All the documents with the exception of the documents in Slovak must be translated into Czech by a sworn translator.

Foreigners with registered place of residence in the Czech Republic may purchase firearms after obtaining corresponding licenses and permits; persons having residence in another EU country must provide documentation showing that they are allowed to own such a firearm therein in order to be granted a permit to purchase a B category gun.

The written test as well as the practical exam has to be taken in Czech. Until 31 December 2011, test-takers were allowed to use a sworn interpreter/translator, but this has since been forbidden.

You can find prostitutes all over Cheb: in the park on Evropska Street, in darkened doorways in the Roma district and in the 98 bordellos in the area, quite a number for a town with a population of 38,000. There are new laws in place to curb the flow of sex tourists. New laws forbid street prostitution in the city centre, and video cameras monitor the main streets. But the laws are useless without police co-operation, of which there is none. Of the hundreds of child prostitutes working in the area, only nine cases have been investigated.

A new Czech-German-Polish commission to combat sex tourism started work recently. One of its main aims, couched in diplomatic language, is “to get police to motivate themselves more intensively”. Translated, the commission hopes to get police in border areas to accept there is a problem. So nothing gets done in the meanwhile.

I searched the red light district with Jojo after eating breakfast starting with Evropska Street and eventually after wandering down countless streets that all began to blur together I finally found the brothel that Burak had described to me. Thank God, because I was starting to lose faith that I would ever find the right one. They had just opened their doors for business when I found it. So I decided to walk in and check it out. Before I did so I put on a pair of rubber surgical gloves that I had brought with me along with my pistol with its attached silencer just in case I did get lucky. I paused for a moment to compose myself and to slow my breathing down and then I turned the door knob and walked in to see what there was inside. Thankfully none of the girls had come out yet. There were instead four large men present, apparently they were doing shift change at that time and they were all chatting with the the Madame who could only be Dinara Kose. I knew it was her because she perfectly matched Burak’s discription. I quietly closed the door behind me and turned the lock. Nobody said anything as I did that but their demeanor quickly changed as they all assumed defensive stances.

I knew I was in it now so I quickly pulled out my silenced semi-automatic pistol, releasing Jojo at the same time as I voiced an attack command (Drz–sounds like Dursh)to him. He immediately jumped on the closest and largest of the four men knocking him to the ground. He quickly ripped his throat out as he had been trained to do. One bad guy down. I then opened fire and shot the second man who was standing directly in front of me who was pulling out a knife, in the head twice . I guess he never heard the old saying about bringing a knife to a gun fight. Even though my pistol was silenced, it still made quite a loud noise. Two bad guys down.

Jojo quickly released the throat of the first man and immediately went for the third man who had just pulled out his gun and leaped at him just as he was pulling the trigger. The gun was pointed directly at me and would most assuredly have killed me but Jojo’s poor body took the full force of the shot instead. Because of his massive size and momentum he was still able to knock the shooter down and rip his throat out as well, though it took some more doing as his life’s blood soaked the floor beneath him. Three bad guys down, and one good guy down as well, if anyone is keeping score. The furthest guy from me started backing away in an effort to escape out the back hallway but I was having none of that as I quickly shot him three times in the back, one extra time just to make sure he was dead. I then quickly walked over to the man Jojo was working on and shot him twice in the head.

Jojo released his throat and slid off the dead guy as he slumped to the ground too weak to even stand. I knew he was dying and there was nothing I could do because I still had Dinara to take care of. She came from behind her desk screaming at me, “What the hell did I do to you? Why did you kill all of my men?”

I woodenly said, “You bought my sister Yua in 2002. She was only six years old at the time and held her captive for ten years before she escaped in 2012 in Istanbul. You can’t deny it. I don’t want to hear any of your excuses.” Then I simply shot her in the head two times. By the time I had finished with her Jojo had expired. I took the knife from the first bad guy I shot and dug out the tracking device implanted in poor Jojo, I also took off his collar because it had my fingerprints on it, then I gave him a great big hug and I left.

None of the girls had come out yet because I can only assume they were too afraid to do so. The streets were still quiet as it was fairly early for the usual crowd of horny tourists. I looked down the ally in both directions and I saw nobody. I then calmy closed the door behind me and walked to the Uodlni nadrz Skalka Reservoir where I threw my gun as far as I could into the cold, deep body of water. I then made sure there was no blood on my hands by quickly rinsing them in the reservoir. During the fracas I had instinctively kept a goodly distance from everybody that I had shot so as to avoid any possible blood splatter, so I knew the rest of me was clean.

After disposing of the gun, I slowly made my way back to my hotel room. Once I was in the room I stripped off all my clothes including my shoes and put them in a bag along with Jojo’s collar. I then crushed his tracker and flushed it down the toilet. After the water rose in the bowl I flushed it a second time to make sure that it was down in the sewer. I then took a long shower sobbing the whole time not because I killed three people but because my loyal companion was dead. I finally composed myself as I finished taking my shower. I packed up all of Jojo’s stuff in his suitcase along with the bag of my clothes. I then packed up all my clothes and stuff and checked out of the hotel just making the 11:00 AM checkout time.

I drove a while before I found a suitable dumpster and after wiping all my prints off the outside of the case and threw it in the waste receptacle. I had previously wiped everything off that was in the suitcase at the hotel room before I filled it including his spiked collar and his second everyday collar. While I felt fairly confident that I had covered all my tracks, I still had made two runs through my hotel room to make sure I had forgotten nothing. Because I had only bought a one-way ticket for me and Jojo to the Czech Republic, there was no question when I purchased only one ticket back to the US. Sometimes things do happen for a reason. If I had asked my Captain to take care of Jojo one more time, I would be dead right now, There is no way I could have taken out all four of those guys by myself. Without Jojo being with me maybe cooler heads would have pervailed but I don’t think so. Because as soon as I saw them all chatting without a care in the world despite the fact that they have ruined not only my sister’s life but countless other lives, my blood just started boiling. There was no possibility that I was going to walk out of there without taking them out, or at least trying to do so. “Vengence is mine saith the Lord“.

I did not know the names of the men I killed. I can only hope that they were the ones who were present when Yua was held captive in Istanbul. Even if they weren’t the ones they were bad men who made a living abusing young helpless women and children and the world is a better place without them walking it.

I was to later find out what their names were and that they had indeed been working for Madame Dinara for several years and were present when Yua was being held there. Their names were Demir Bulut, Kemal Demirci, Baris Sahin and Emre Aydin. May they all rot in hell. If I had known at the time that these guys routinely raped the girls they were charged with looking after, I might have taken longer to finish them off.