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Hong Kong police said they will investigate comments made by action star Jackie Chan that he had used guns and grenades to confront triad gang members.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rush Hour star told the Guangzhou-based Southern People Weekly magazine that he had been “bullied” by triads<\/strong>, or the Chinese organized crime societies, that were once powerful and thrived in the Asian financial hub.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In the past, when they bullied me, I hid in the United States. They opened fire at me once I got off the aeroplane,” Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post quoted him as saying in the magazine interview published last week.<\/p>\n

“From that moment on, I needed to carry a gun every day when I went out,” <\/strong>said the Hong Kong born star, who has played a hero cop that took on crime lords in his hugely popular Cantonese crime action film series ‘Police Story’.<\/p>\n

The 58-year-old actor said he had to confront a gang of 20 members once with guns when the group surrounded him with knives at a Hong Kong eatery.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I told them they had been going too far and that I had been hiding from them. Later on, I confronted them with two guns and six grenades,” he said, without saying when the incident occurred or how it ended.<\/p>\n

A police spokeswoman on Wednesday said they will probe Chan’s comments but stopped short of saying whether they will question him.<\/p>\n

“We will see what he has said in the interview first,” the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

Chan suggested in the same interview that protest in the semi-autonomous Hong Kong that was returned to Beijing in 1997 should be restricted, sparking criticism from activists and politicians.<\/p>\n

Gun control or not?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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