You should've hidden it in plain sight.
"I'm just.. err, it got in the way of the presentation ..so the...boss wanted me to throw it away.. which is what I'm doing right now.. throwing away, yessire..in my car..uh, gotta go."
One of my favorite FO arguments is when the alternate universe vs existing desert eagle comes up.
Because a paranoid '50s America is somehow keeping Israel from coming up with a pistol.