Posted on 11/17/2017 6:46:54 AM PST by Simon Green
In the wake of three high-profile mass shootings — Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs and Rancho Tehema — I wonder if firearms freedom fence sitters are starting to get the message: gun control doesn’t work. Background checks don’t stop criminals, crazies and terrorists from tooling-up and going postal. Background checks don’t stop them. Assault weapon bans don’t stop them. Ammunition capacity laws don’t stop them. A bullet to the brain? That stops them! Here’s more proof [via dailyrecord.co.uk] . . .
An eccentric pensioner who was found to have a massive arsenal of weapons after the fire brigade rushed to put out a blaze at his home has been jailed for five years.
Paul Bushell had amassed around 160 firearms, some of which were loaded and included sub-machine guns and Russian-made AKM 47 rifles.
The 74-year-old stashed the weapons in a basement and in the top floor room at his Edwardian mid-terrace house, without any of his family knowing about it.
The guns found included a Sten submachine, a British Mk1 machine gun, an Armalite AR10 rifle, and a M10 sub-machine gun.
The pensioner also had a Kommando semi-automatic pistol, a Russian AKm47 rifle and a FN 1910 semi-automatic pistol.
Now I’m not saying that Mr. Bushell is a bad guy. None of the reports of his UK “arsenal” (not the football team) indicated that he planned to do anything nefarious with his firearms.
I highlight his case to make an obvious point: if a good guy can amass 74 firearms — including machine guns — in an island country American antis hail as a “gun free zone,” what are the chances that gun control laws can choke off the firearms supply to bad guys in the U.S., a country with some 300m firearms in private hands? Exactly, precisely, none.
Oh and how did Mr. Bushell get his guns? Strangely none of the news accounts of his crime(s) address that point.
Especially not The Guardian, a news org that’s recently launched a full-on, on-going semi-journalistic assault on American gun rights called Break the Cycle. If only we could break the cycle of anti-gunners’ willful ignorance . .
On a further note concerning gun control in the U.K.,why was Thomas Hamilton allowed by senior police officers to keep his guns even though he was kicked out of his gun club and local junior officers recommended that his permits be revoked and his guns confiscated? Why were most of the Dunblane inquiry files put under official lock and key for the next 100 years?
“what are the chances that gun control laws can choke off the firearms supply to bad guys in the U.S., a country with some 300m firearms in private hands? Exactly, precisely, none.”
BTW, there are a lot, which number is growing, of guns that are completely off the books. Google “80% lowers” to see an entire industry that is out there to allow individuals to manufacture their own firearms, without any paperwork needed (in most states). It isn’t expensive - you need a jig (which these companies sell, generally for $80 - $150, which can be used for 25 or so lowers) and either a router or a drill press (which can be obtained for well under $300), plus the aluminum “paperweights” themselves ($25 - $65, depending on various features). Build that (in a couple of hours, tops), and you now have the part of the gun (at least with AR-15s) that is considered to be a firearm under the law. FYI, they are available for AR-10s, Colt Gov’t Model .45s, Ruger 10/22s and Glocks. Good luck to the antis in regulating THIS.
So with that, the libtards want to confiscate guns in America???
One at a time?
They want to take our guns for nonpolitically correct thinking. It’s about punishing their enemies and acquiring power over dissidents.
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Sort of reminds me of the guy in “Hot Fuzz”.
“When guns are outlawed, outlaws will have guns”, is that hard to understand?
Every time.
“So with that, the libtards want to confiscate guns in America???”
Not in response to you but if collectingg guns makes one a “gun nut” what is a stamp, coin, butterfly,etc collector? I guess if you are intersted in something that makes you a “nut” to liberals.
Yep but in those other things you’re a collector; with guns, you’re a gun nut.
It isn’t ‘gun free’ in the UK. It is not even ‘legal gun free’.
Plenty of people there still have guns. Heavily regulated to be sure. But not disarmed completely.
Granted, roughly one percent of the British population owns a firearm of some sort (largely single shot or double barreled shotguns), but their (legal) ability to use them in defense of self or home is virtually nonexistent.
Welcome to FR, Simon. I’ve been told by a Londoner that the British basically laugh at their many civil liberty losses and get around the laws. One example I recall is when cameras were installed at stop lights and were immediately shot out by the “unarmed” locals throughout the land. The attitude of the fellow who told me was that Englanders have a long history and a sense of humor.
It's actually over 3% (1.8 million in England & Wales out of 58.5 million total pop. - separate statistics are kept for Scotland, but the figures are broadly similar). And as well as shotguns there are also plenty of sporting rifles, which like shotguns have never been banned.
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