Bad-ass portrait of the day: young Berlusconi with gun

Young Silvio Berlusconi with Magnum 357

That's Silvio Berlusconi telling 50Cent to go fuck himself. Young gun: Unseen Seventies photo of up-and-coming businessman Silvio Berlusconi... armed with a 357 Magnum:
Reclining in a chair in his office, a sharp-suited young Silvio Berlusconi sits with a 357 Magnum in its holster clearly visible on his desk, proof of the emerging businessman's ruthless streak.

Seventies Italy was a dangerous time and the Italian president-to-be feared kidnap by the Mafia or worse - but wasn't going to take the threat lying down.

The black and white photograph, taken in 1977 when Berlusconi was an emerging industrialist, has been discovered in the archives of a photographer during a clear-out.
via tv