British Police destroy dangerous weapons

[Ed Smurf]

Yes, they were dangerous and had to be destroyed! I'm sure we all agree.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-31611673

 

[tacfoley]

Bearing in mind that

a. I live here, and

b. the likelihood of any PIRA unit being located in Somerset is about as far from reality as it is possible to get.

So MY take is that this is a police force getting rid of a collection of de-acts...

I spent far too much of my thirty-three years in the British Army in Northern Ireland as a serving soldier and officer, and there was NEVER the slightest hint of the use/presence of an MG34 in the province. The same goes for the civilian police version of the BAR - note the pistol grip. Also note the Martini........ That's FOUR different calibres to provide ammunition for, to start with.

Add to that the spectacularly poor reporting for which the Daily Wail is well-known...

tac

 

[J996]

It is really sad to see what the left wing mouth breathers have turned England into, just makes you want to

 

[jody_v]

Seems about the only way they could be dangerous is if someone hit you over the head with them.

 

[purple]

They, like us, should be focussing on the really dangerous weapons....like the "Jihadi Johns" and people of that ilk.

 

[Juster]

I love the British firearms experts "that might be a machine gun".

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

^^ and they might date from the Second World War! IMHO, whoever had them shut up long ago and the public has forgotten who to ask.

 

[collector67]

Gotta love the "possible terrorist" link. "Achmed! They found our secret arsenal!!!"

 

[FALover]

A more simple yet not as sensational explanation would be that these firearms belonged to a collector who would rather throw them in the river than to give them up to the government just to make a personal statement . Britain has not been great for many decades and will never be that again.

 

[Familygunnutz]

every major civilizations have had it's rises and falls, Britain is on it's way down I'm afraid.

 

[skneub]

Ummm the water kinda beat the fools to it

 

[rhino62]

So glad I left nearly fifty years ago, when I was at school I remember one of the books I took my common entrance exam on was George Orwell's 1984. It has unfortunately become that type of a society!

 

[infidel29]

pathetic!

 

[EMEDiva]

Their already destroyed. The cops don't have to do much. After being abandoned at the bottom of the river, for who knows for how long.
All in the interest of Public Safety.

 

[antiqueguy]

Bearing in mind that

a. I live here, and

b. the likelihood of any PIRA unit being located in Somerset is about as far from reality as it is possible to get.

So MY take is that this is a police force getting rid of a collection of de-acts...

I spent far too much of my thirty-three years in the British Army in Northern Ireland as a serving soldier and officer, and there was NEVER the slightest hint of the use/presence of an MG34 in the province. The same goes for the civilian police version of the BAR - note the pistol grip. Also note the Martini........ That's FOUR different calibres to provide ammunition for, to start with.

Add to that the spectacularly poor reporting for which the Daily Wail is well-known...

tac

the IRA did use martinis and just about what ever they could get there hands on but I doubt that's where these came from some look cut up already

 

[smellie]

When I visited the Pattern Room at Enfield Lock in 1976, I was shown a rack of OVER THIRTY brand-new-in-grease AKMs.

They were Russian-made, from a shipment which had been sold to Libya.

The one I examined was less than a year old.

The entire RACK were PIRA weapons captured in Northern Ireland.

Paddy had a LOT of help in that.

 

[wbaad]

I'm sure terrorists don't dispose of vintage guns in a river...
My god the uk is it's own worst enemy. Harbouring all kinds of terrorist groups and a bunch of rusted up junk makes the news?

 

[Juster]

We have the surveillance video leading up to the incident, go to the 1:00 point: