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originally posted by: crazyewok
a reply to: nonspecific
Happened down here a decade or so about.
A new eastern European gang came over and thought there would make a good bit of money selling guns. Ended up dumping them in the river Medway as they couldn’t sell them. Think they found something like 200 guns in the river.
originally posted by: queenofswords
Maybe some Brits are getting sick and tired of not having the right to defend themselves should their neighborhoods be overtaken by radicals who merely want to walk door to door shooting people till they get caught then suicide themselves.
originally posted by: grainofsand
a reply to: queenofswords
I'm curious, do you know how many of the many shooting massacres in the US in recent years have been foiled by citizens who conceal-carry or otherwise?
I haven't heard of any so assume it is zero, but maybe I haven't Googled it hard enough?
Thanks in advance.
originally posted by: chuck258
but is that not worth it to people like you?
originally posted by: grainofsand
originally posted by: chuck258
but is that not worth it to people like you?
What type of 'people' do you think I am?
I've no problem with gun ownership, and/or using lethal force to defend myself or others, heck I've plunged a knife into a burglar before now and didn't even get a police caution.
I'm just questioning how many concealed carry folk have saved the day compared to the number of massacres in the US each year.
originally posted by: chuck258
Defensive gun use doesn't have to end with a dead perpetrators. The mere presence of a gun can still be defensive.
originally posted by: Maxatoria
a reply to: TigStar82
Most will be police/mi6 or whatever stings so you go and pick up your gun from the drop point and about 100 armed plod pop up and you're f----'d
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: Soloprotocol
Whats BS?.... the cops arresting some gun smugglers/hoarders
Why should they (ATS ) dig deep - you're the one pretending you're a serious investigator and yet after planting the seed of their names expect others to do your digging for you. Why, so you can feign indignation?
ever to be found in the UK in a long time, and considering the times we are living in, just seems to have disappeared off the radar.
but this case might never see the light of day in a court law.
Seven people, including a grandmother, were remanded in custody on Friday, charged in connection with one of the largest ever seizures of guns and ammunition in Britain.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: Soloprotocol
ever to be found in the UK in a long time, and considering the times we are living in, just seems to have disappeared off the radar.
WHat times are you living in. You forget the 3 buildings in London that were taken out by the IRA. That was some big bomb.
Just with the high number of Muslim threads happening lately one gets jaded reading where spurious connections are attempted. I thought you were trying to get a rise by bringing in the lack of Arab sounding names. If you are sincere then I apologise.
but this case might never see the light of day in a court law.
There you go again...making assumptions
This is from your OP
Seven people, including a grandmother, were remanded in custody on Friday, charged in connection with one of the largest ever seizures of guns and ammunition in Britain.
They were charged...what you want the court date and the name list of Jurors already? What leads you to say "it may never see the light of day?" What are your reasons for smelling something fishy.
“For the agency and law enforcement in general, this was a very significant case. It was probably the biggest seizure we have seen on the mainland of these types of weapons.”
The same underworld source supplied similar weapons to the Islamist fanatics who slaughtered 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris in January of that year.