[PotatoHeadMick]

A British policeman with some sense of history stops his colleagues "dismantling" a WWI relic.

[1rudeboy]

I would pay to watch the this turn up on Antiques Roadshow UK. :)

[wbill]

Interesting article, but truly scary.

Did you read the quote about "Making the gun safe"? In general, I would think that an unloaded weapon is about as safe as it gets, unless you drop it on your foot.

[dirtboy]

After finding the 1912 Webley Revolver, staff at the shop in Earl Sholton, near Leicester called Leicestershire police to collect the weapon so it could be dismantled.

If that doesn't epitomize what has happened to England - a war hero's weapon dismantled - I don't know what does.

[stubb]

“dismantled” - are you kidding me? In their view it’s a bomb that could go off at any time.

[ladtx]

[osagebowman]

Ping! LSA

[tet68]

we would urge anyone who finds any sort of weapon in their family’s belongings to call the police and not to dispose of it on their own.

‘Officers will come to your house, and make the gun safe.

Mine are on safe already thank you.
God what has happened to England.

[PowderMonkey]

"found dumped in a bundle of second-hand clothes."

(sigh) Heartbreaking. Not the first time this has happened in the U.K. Plenty found before were sent to the furnace for melt down, without a second thought. It would appear that given this coupled with the current state of affairs in England, I'd say that the good Capt. Sayres ultimately gave his life for an England that disappeared at the close of the 20th Century.

[Stevenc131]

A weapon from the glory days of Birmingham gunmaking. The gunmakers in Birmingham turned out hundreds of thousands of weapons, from very basic guns to some of the finest ever made. As unlikely as it seems today, entire city blocks in Birmingham were taken up by gun factories. Restrictions on rifle ownership after WWI hurt the gun trade in Britain, and then came the Great Depression, and many makers shut their doors for good.

Webley (or Webley & Scott) made guns under their own name, and also made guns for other “makers” and also for various retailers. The snobbish London gunmakers always disparaged their northern gunmaking kin in Birmingham, but in truth more than one buyer of a London ‘best’ gun paid a premium price, and ended up with a Birmingham gun (which, fortunately for the buyer, were equal in quality to a true London made gun).

[SunkenCiv]

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