The plan also involves parachuting in as chief executive of the Fiat parent company Enrico Bondi, an old Mediobanca hand who made his reputation turning round the Ferruzzi agro-chemicals business and, latterly, sorting out troubled Telecom Italia.

ECONOMIST: Fiat

While the courts are still sorting out Heller's implications, politicians should not assume that they have a free hand to restrict private gun ownership.

WSJ: David Rivkin and Andrew Grossman: Gun Control and the Constitution