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
Mmmmmmm.....Bren gun.....lovely piece of work those...makes my heart go pitter-patter. That and the Lewis MkI....
It was leaving the children unattended that was the crime, not that they were left alone with inoperable weapons!
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$$.
Good thing no inert or deactivated children were hurt by them.
Bren guns don't have "clips". They have "magazines". Garand M1s used clips.
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A knife with a serated edge....oh no...a bagel knife
and with children in the house no less...
Don't be so certain that the Bren was a DeWat. Following the motorbike crash that took the life of Thomas Edward Lawrence, AKA *Lawrence of Arabia*, the executors of his estate found a number of lovely trophies from his service at his cottage at Cloud's Hill, including a perfectly servicable Lewis Gun with several drums of ammo for it.
His S.M.L.E. rifle- with five notches in the stock- resides in the Imperial War Museum collection, following Lawrence's presentation of it to Britain's King George V.
ever child in BRITAIN should be taught how to use a gun by the age of thirteen-they will need it to fight the islaamafads-but oh no the perverts have taken control-they do not want you to defend yourself with a knife even if you are eighty-take away defense and you change the populace-who needs anglo saxons in ENGLAND-or AMERICANS IN AMERICA
The law applies only to commoners. Had he been Mr. Average citizen, he'd get twenty years.
Officers found the Bren gun with a loaded clip at the top of the stairs, a rifle in a bedroom, exposed wires on a light switch and electrical socket and a knife with a serrated edge easily accessible in the kitchen.
Gee, what an unusual place to keep a knife, one with a serrated edge no less.
Put a fork in them. They're done.
Why would you load a gun that wasn't capable of being fired?