The typical convention is the Rank, Rtd honorific after one's name usually only kicks in at the LCol level and higher.
Man jailed for stealing Warminster army base rifles
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The typical convention is the Rank, Rtd honorific after one's name usually only kicks in at the LCol level and higher.
FWIW, Mr. Laidler did truly know a lot. He was a well renowned overhauler of military rifle scopes and liquid prismatic compasses. I honestly never had a bad interaction with him, and he even sent me free compass parts he had in his spares drawer (going back 15 years now) when some parts I needed were inop.
None of that excuses criminal behaviour, but I cannot say he was ever arrogant to me in our dealings over at MSC - which were numerous over the years.
He wrote more than two. For example, off the top of my head, he wrote The Guns of Dagenham about the Sterling SMG. There are likely others, though I don't remember them all. He was a regular contributing author for "Collector Grade Publications".
Not guilty trial 1. Guilty on retrail. I say he is entitled to 2 outa 3 trails for democracy sake. Also a senior, the country's most vulnerable.....And I want to know how many innocent firearms owners had their rights trambled on get this one guy. Phone taps, gun sites recorded, 3 scumbags in cars following, criminal harassment, videoing and audio gun show recording , illeagal payoffs, back room deals. Lets just say it's happening here too....Firearms owners stick together a big storm is coming, lets not get sidetracked by big brother's BS.
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This.
The police in the UK are sometimes entirely off the hook, they have a unique way of making everything personal - based on family experience. The last time I saw one of my cousins, he had a police officer following him around - when the constable was off duty (not kidding) just because "I want to be there when you go down", which he told him to his face in front of a witness (me). I'm happy to say that some of the antics accepted by the government in the UK as regular police procedure would jail an officer here.
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Between 1998 and 2016. So stolen certainly, valuable in that one was sold for $10k. However, the hysteria and hyperbole, is simply click bait/outrage "journalism ". Gone 18 years, noone harmed. Where is the outrage for trusting checks and balances that misplaced these items 18 years.
Nits grow into lice.
I agree the courts seem to sentence convicted law enforcement officers differently from civilians for similar offences and I don't always see their justification for it. I think sometimes courts take the view that law enforcers who offend should be treated more harshly for the betrayal of trust, and I understand that rationale, but latterly it seems more common that they treat them more leniently (perhaps that just seems more common because I find it more objectionable.)
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I am very familiar with UK MOD stock taking processes. Firearms are subject to quarterly counts, by serial number. If these weren't picked up, then some poor loggy F'd up. May god have mercy on his soul, because Abbey Wood won't.
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You guys should probably actually read the article(s):
None of the guns were "live" when they left government control...they were deactivated (probably) retirement trophys and obsolete parts slated for scrapping.
The "firearms" charges are because the "deactivated and no longer firearms" did not go thru the british proof houses which have a "monopoly" of "proofing" firearms.
The judge was convinced by the prosecution that the "dangerously unproofed" non firearms were a danger to the public.
The "proof houses" are merely a cash grab scam in the modern world. In the UK if you change the rifle stock, technically your rifle is supposed to be submitted to the proof house for proof firing.
None of the guns were "live" when they left government control...they were deactivated (probably) retirement trophys and obsolete parts slated for scrapping.
The "firearms" charges are because the "deactivated and no longer firearms" did not go thru the british proof houses which have a "monopoly" of "proofing" firearms.
The judge was convinced by the prosecution that the "dangerously unproofed" non firearms were a danger to the public.
The "proof houses" are merely a cash grab scam in the modern world. In the UK if you change the rifle stock, technically your rifle is supposed to be submitted to the proof house for proof firing.
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