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Tory who left children with guns avoids jail
Daily Telegraph ^
| 09/30/2005
| Paul Stokes
Posted on 09/30/2005 12:16:07 PM PDT by David Hunter
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I don't condone the fact that he left two young children locked in his home alone with dodgy wiring and a knife for three hours. But so what if he had a deactivated musket and a deactivated Bren gun in his home?
Doesn't the idiot journalist understand that a working Bren gun, (a fully automatic WWII light machine gun), has been strictly prohibited for private ownership in the UK since 1936?
Oh my god, that deactivated Bren gun is loaded with a clip full of inert rounds! LOL
To: David Hunter
Mmmmmmm.....Bren gun.....lovely piece of work those...makes my heart go pitter-patter. That and the Lewis MkI....
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:20:54 PM PDT
by
lovecraft
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Ping!
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:23:00 PM PDT
by
David Hunter
(http://www.freebritannia.com/ - the real home of British Libertarian Conservatism)
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To: David Hunter
Agreed!
It was leaving the children unattended that was the crime, not that they were left alone with inoperable weapons!
To: David Hunter
The Brits consider an eight year old an "infant"? What are they trying to raise, a generation of wussies? A decent eight year old should certainly be competent to be left alone for 1-3 hours and maybe even to babysit, depending on personality. As far as exposed electrical wiring, it chlorinates the gene pool. ;-) Seriously, I learned as a four year old not to touch exposed electrical wiring, and have not done so since. As long as it's not a fire hazard, they're probably making too big a deal of it. Oh, yeah, I forgot, they use 220 over there for receptacles and lighting. That stuff will kick your a$$.
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:26:25 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
To: lovecraft
Yes, its a good sturdy old gun. I bet those coppers crapped themselves when they found it!
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:31:28 PM PDT
by
David Hunter
(http://www.freebritannia.com/ - the real home of British Libertarian Conservatism)
To: David Hunter
Oh my god, that deactivated Bren gun is loaded with a clip full of inert rounds! LOLGood thing no inert or deactivated children were hurt by them.
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:39:41 PM PDT
by
River_Wrangler
(You can't be lost if you don't care where you're at !)
To: David Hunter
Bren guns don't have "clips". They have "magazines". Garand M1s used clips.
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:41:19 PM PDT
by
Renfield
(If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
To: Still Thinking
What are they trying to raise, a generation of wussies? A decent eight year old should certainly be competent to be left alone for 1-3 hours and maybe even to babysit, depending on personality.I suppose it depends on the child, but certainly at that age I was often left alone at home for longer than that. The whole article reaks of anti-gun hysteria.
It sounds like the Police freaked out when they found the deactivated weapons. No surprise there considering that they're British. They probably called the armed response team out and a ballistics expert to make sure that the guns weren't dangerous, since most British coppers don't know an M9 Beretta from a 9mm Uzi!
Oh, yeah, I forgot, they use 220 over there for receptacles and lighting. That stuff will kick your a$$.
Actually, its 240-250 volts over here.
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:58:23 PM PDT
by
David Hunter
(http://www.freebritannia.com/ - the real home of British Libertarian Conservatism)
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To: Still Thinking
Yep, they want a bunch of Metros...that will say how high, when nanny says JUMP
To: Still Thinking
that's right, in the UK apparently you're an infant until you are 16, at which point you're an adult.
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09/30/2005 1:07:24 PM PDT
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absolootezer0
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09/30/2005 1:08:57 PM PDT
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freepatriot32
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posted on
09/30/2005 1:09:26 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: Renfield
Bren guns don't have "clips". They have "magazines". Garand M1s used clips.I know mate, but in Britain people tend to use "clip" and "magazine" interchangeably. That is probably due to incorrect usage in films and the fact that few people here shoot and so don't know how a clip differs from a magazine.
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posted on
09/30/2005 1:15:38 PM PDT
by
David Hunter
(http://www.freebritannia.com/ - the real home of British Libertarian Conservatism)
To: David Hunter
A knife with a serated edge....oh no...a bagel knife
and with children in the house no less...
To: David Hunter
Yhe article does not say but why did they break into the home? Sounds like someone snitched.
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posted on
09/30/2005 1:21:49 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: Still Thinking
"The Brits consider an eight year old an "infant"? What are they trying to raise, a generation of wussies?"
They already have. Sad, but true, and if we don't wtch it, we will also.
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posted on
09/30/2005 1:22:32 PM PDT
by
alarm rider
(Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
To: eastforker
It doesn't say if he was their father or a relative of theirs. Maybe his ex-wife or the children's parents went to his home to collect them, saw them through the window and called the Police rather than waiting for him to come home.
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posted on
09/30/2005 1:30:27 PM PDT
by
David Hunter
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