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Another 'success' story for gun control.
« on: August 14, 2015, 02:31:52 pm »
You knows those laws that gun grabbers love to say keep the people of the UK safe by preventing law abiding citizens from owning automatic weapons?
Well it looks like someone forgot to tell the criminals about them.  :facepalm

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Seven people have been charged after a cache of weapons including automatic rifles and machine pistols was recovered in the largest seizure of its kind in the UK.

Six men and a woman will appear before magistrates following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) into the suspected importation of firearms.

Officers seized 22 automatic assault rifles, nine Skorpion machine pistols, 58 magazines, two silencers and around 1,000 live rounds of ammunition following an operation on Tuesday afternoon.

The guns were in holdalls and a suitcase, which also contained magazines and ammunition, when they were taken from a van as it left Cuxton Marina, in Kent.

It followed the arrival of a motor cruiser that had been tracked as it travelled to the UK from France.

A total of eight arrests were made in Cuxton, Orpington and Swanley, all in Kent. The other seven people held have been charged with importing and possessing firearms.

NCA deputy director Graham Gardner said: "This was an extremely significant seizure, the largest of its kind in the UK.

"I've no doubt that these weapons would have ended up in criminal hands and it goes without saying the risk they would have posed to the public. We are still in the early stages of a significant investigation which will continue for some time."

The seven suspects charged are expected to appear by video link at Medway Magistrates' Court on Friday.

They are: David Payne, 42, of Rochester; Jennifer Arthy, 41, of Rochester; John Smale, 58, of Rochester; Christopher Owen, 29, of Rochester; Harry Shilling, 22, of Swanley; Michael Defraine, 29, of Bexleyheath; and Richard Rye, 24, of Swanley.

A 28-year-old man from Swanley has been released on bail pending further inquiries until September 24.


Some photos of the guns that the UK's laws mean obviously couldn't be in the country at all.





There you go, nothing to see. Please look the other way and repeat fifty times, "Gun control works."  :whistle

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11803329/Seven-charged-after-UKs-largest-ever-weapons-cache-seizure-in-Kent.html
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    Re: Another 'success' story for gun control.
    « Reply #1 on: August 14, 2015, 08:13:49 pm »
    At least they have good taste - vz-58s instead of ROMAKs... ;)
    That IS the story of gun control in England - criminals get the most powerful firearms they can, because the high jump for one is the same as another, plus England's enlightened justice system/prisons, don't impress me much.

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    Re: Another 'success' story for gun control.
    « Reply #2 on: August 14, 2015, 09:32:50 pm »
    ...plus England's enlightened justice system/prisons, don't impress me much.
    Uh huh...  I can't speak from experience, but I bet they decide to get 'tough on crime' whenever it involves a *gasp* gun.

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    « Reply #3 on: August 14, 2015, 10:05:20 pm »
    I bet their cops feel real safe after the gun control laws meant they'd never have to get into a gunfight with crims again. Those poor limey bastards  :banghead.
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    Re: Another 'success' story for gun control.
    « Reply #4 on: August 15, 2015, 01:43:38 am »
    Seems not all of your countrymen have lost the flame:

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/597166/SAS-sniper-saves-boy-ISIS-Syria

    Hero SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS maniac


    "It was a good day’s work"

        SAS source



    A HERO SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son.

    By Nick Gutteridge

    The brave British marksman saved the terrified eight-year-old and his father after taking out the crazed jihadi with a head shot from 1,000 metres away.

    The special forces crack shot then killed two other members of the hated terror group, who were also taking part in the sick planned execution.

    ISIS militants had decreed that the little boy and his father must die after branding them "infidels" because they refused to denounce their faith.

    They were just seconds from death when the hero sniper intervened to stop the barbaric killing in the Syrian desert. The pair were part of the minority Shia sect of Islam which ISIS considers to be heretical.

    They were saved from a cruel and painful death at the hands of the fanatics after an Iraqi spy tipped off British special forces to the planned execution.

    Special forces troops who arrived at the killing site, where ISIS was carrying out a series of rigged 'trials' of locals, discovered a gruesome scene with several headless bodies already lying bloodied on the desert floor.

    The dramatic rescue operation took place last month near the Syrian border with Turkey, where an elite SAS unit had been conducting covert patrols.

    Defence sources described how the SAS unit moved into a position just outside a village where ISIS members were holding the 'trial' in front of a crowd of locals who had been forced to attend at gunpoint.

    The crack team considered calling in an air strike using a Reaper Drone, but the elite troops feared many of the innocent civilians who had been forced to watch the executions might also be killed.

    Instead the SAS unit decided on a risky long-range kill using the team’s sniper.

    Speaking to the Daily Star Sunday, one source said: “There were several decapitated bodies already lying on the ground.

    "Through binoculars the soldiers could see that the crowd were terrified and many were in tears."

    A man and a young boy were dragged out in front of the crowd and were made to kneel down.

    "They were both wearing blindfolds and looked terrified.

    "A tall bearded man emerged and drew a long knife.

    "He began addressing the crowd and slapping the father and his son around the head and kicking them on to the floor.

    "Standing either side of the executioner were two other Isis fighters, both armed with AK47s."

    The SAS marksman, using a .50 calibre sniper rifle fitted with a silencer, killed the executioner just in time.

    The source added: "The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed.

    "Everyone just stared in confusion. The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots – three kills with three bullets.

    "Someone from the crowd then ran over and untied the father and son’s hands and took their blindfolds off.

    "They just stared at the bodies and then ran. They were last seen heading towards the Turkish border in a pick-up truck.

    "It was a good day’s work."

    The SAS team was later told the village held a party to celebrate the deaths of the ISIS fighters and it is understood terrorists have since refused to enter the town.

    SAS teams have fought alongside resistance fighters in both Iraq and Syria for more than a year.

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    Re: Another 'success' story for gun control.
    « Reply #5 on: August 15, 2015, 02:05:29 am »
    Chuds having their destructive actions of malintent thwarted? Beautiful  :thumbup1.
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    Do we forget that cops were primarily still using 6 Shot Revolvers well through the mid 80's? It wasn't until after 1986 that most departments then relented and went to autos.
    Capacity wasn't really an issue then... and honestly really it's not even an issue now.
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    Re: Another 'success' story for gun control.
    « Reply #6 on: August 15, 2015, 02:13:04 am »
    Chuds having their destructive actions of malintent thwarted? Beautiful  :thumbup1.

    Ain't it, though?

    " . . . it is understood terrorists have since refused to enter the town."

    That part really jumped out at me.  Seems a bully is the same -- any language, any culture.
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    Re: Another 'success' story for gun control.
    « Reply #7 on: August 15, 2015, 09:41:45 pm »
    Yup.  It's all fun and games until somebody's head gets popped like an overripe melon .  Followed in rapid succession by two other somebodies dying cluelessly at the hands of ( gasp! ) infidels.   :clap
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