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Hand over your guns and face no prosecution, say police
Brighouse Echo ^ | 11-19-14 | unattributed

Posted on 11/19/2014 8:26:21 PM PST by smokingfrog

People will be able to walk into a police station with guns, knives and ammunition and face no prosecution tomorrow (Thursday).

West Yorkshire Police is launching a ten-day weapons amnesty which will allow people to walk into Halifax Police Station and hand over weapons without fear of facing criminal action.

The Force said the campaign, running from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 30, will “avoid weapons getting into the wrong hands and provide members of the community with a safe place to dispose of firearms, ammunition, knives and other weapons they have”.

West Yorkshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Andy Battle said the move, which has been replicated by other Forces across the country isn’t because of any rise in crime involving weapons and is instead an attempt to stop people being caught out by a follows a recent change in the law which now makes it illegal for certain people to hold antique weapons.

“We have worked hard to reduce gun and knife crime and it remains low in West Yorkshire. We take firearms offences very seriously and don’t want people to fall foul of the law by keeping hold of these weapons,” he said.

“This is not in response to any particular incidents in West Yorkshire but reflects the change in the law and gives people the opportunity to safely bring them into police. It is about preventing injury and harm to members of the public and making them safe and feel safer.

(Excerpt) Read more at brighouseecho.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banglist; pussification; weapons
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Right-O mate!
1 posted on 11/19/2014 8:26:21 PM PST by smokingfrog
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2 posted on 11/19/2014 8:28:17 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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The Force said the campaign, running from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 30, will “avoid weapons getting into the wrong hands

The Force?

3 posted on 11/19/2014 8:32:10 PM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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Hand over your guns and face no prosecution persecution....
4 posted on 11/19/2014 8:33:36 PM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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Uncle Adolf would be so proud.


5 posted on 11/19/2014 8:36:58 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Provisional ballots'. When legal votes just aren't getting the job done. - The DemocRATS.)
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Slaves are made in such ways.


6 posted on 11/19/2014 8:43:00 PM PST by TYVets
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A gramme is better than a damn.

To paraphrase Ewan McGregor’s character in the movie ‘Trainspotting’ (and H.G. Wells), it’s almost embarrassing having to acknowledge that these Eloi colonized us.


7 posted on 11/19/2014 8:59:05 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: smokingfrog; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

8 posted on 11/19/2014 9:00:52 PM PST by null and void (The better I know obama, the less I fear a president Biden.)
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He would. Now that he is dead, his traitor minions abroad do not look like traitors anymore. Now all he needs is to rise from the ashes...


9 posted on 11/19/2014 9:10:09 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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Baaaaaa...


10 posted on 11/19/2014 9:19:53 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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I want my country back


11 posted on 11/19/2014 9:21:47 PM PST by Nifster
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I want my country back

So do I, but the article is about Great Britain.

12 posted on 11/19/2014 11:09:41 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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I know that...It is one of three or four hings I usually respond to null and void with


13 posted on 11/19/2014 11:42:42 PM PST by Nifster
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So, I guess you weren’t commenting on the article at all. Alrighty.


14 posted on 11/19/2014 11:53:56 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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15 posted on 11/20/2014 12:02:35 AM PST by caww
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“Hand over your guns and face no prosecution, say police”.

And I thought is was directed at the Street Rats of Ferguson. My bad!


16 posted on 11/20/2014 6:02:01 AM PST by DaveA37
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Can I point out that this amnesty is about ILLEGALLY held guns?. Not legally held weapons.


17 posted on 11/20/2014 6:14:55 AM PST by the scotsman (UK)
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Was there some change in the law about antique weapons?
I didn’t understand that part.


18 posted on 11/20/2014 6:32:40 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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“Step into the building and get a free shower”.


19 posted on 11/20/2014 6:48:14 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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Then take if back.

It's not like they are going to give it back!

20 posted on 11/20/2014 7:09:23 AM PST by null and void (The better I know obama, the less I fear a president Biden.)
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