Renowned American comedian Jerry Lewis was detained by police in Las Vegas last week when airport screeners found an unloaded gun in his baggage as the 82-year-old was preparing to board on a flight from Las Vegas to Detroit, authorities announced on Tuesday.

Jerry Lewis was carrying a small .22-caliber handgun when he got at the security screening area on Friday at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, according to Officer Ramon Denby, a spokesman for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, cited by Reuters.

The comedian was detained for a short period of time and the gun was confiscated, because Lewis was not in the possession of a weapon permit.

The star of the 1963 movie “The Nutty Professor” and the half of a madly booming comedic pair with singer Dean Martin decades ago, was voyaging to Mount Pleasant, Michigan, in order to perform a one-man show, a source close to the comedian informed, according to Reuters. Lewis’ manager, Claudia Marghilano, informed the Associated Press that the handgun was an emptied prop gun which the “King of Comedy” sometimes used in his performances. Furthermore, Claudia Marghilano reported that Jerry Lewis had no idea that the gun was in the bag along with other props.

The weapon was registered to Lewis and he will have to attend a court hearing in order to recover it, Denby explained.

Since 1966, Lewis has hosted a yearly telethon to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. What’s more, the telethon raised $63.8 million only last year.