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E! Online said the 82-year-old performer was briefly detained Friday at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas by police who confiscated his .22-caliber Beretta and cited Lewis for allegedly carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.

Lewis' manager told E! Online the confiscated item is actually a hollowed-out prop pistol incapable of firing.

However, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police spokesman Officer Bill Cassell maintains that if that was true, "it wouldn't be a weapon and we couldn't cite him for carrying a weapon."

Lewis was allowed to board his flight following the citation, E! Online said.

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