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Girl, 13, arrested with machine gun after raid on south London flat
The Evening Standard (U.K.) ^ | July 22, 2009 | Martin Bentham

Posted on 07/22/2009 11:05:38 AM PDT by Stoat

BREAKING NEWS: Girl, 13, arrested with machine gun after raid on south London flat

Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor
22.07.09


Specialist officers raided the girl's home in Croydon

A 13-year-old girl has been arrested by armed Met police after a sub-machinegun was found in her wardrobe.

The weapon was discovered when a specialist anti-gang crime squad of 15 officers with hydraulic battering rams and combat shields raided the girl's home in Croydon.

She was detained on suspicion of possessing a firearm, an offence which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for adults and three for juveniles.

The raid, which police say is likely to be followed by further arrests, will prompt renewed fears that older criminals are involving children in gun and gang crime and using them to look after weapons.

Police declined to comment on the background to the arrest but said the raid was part of an operation by the Aries squad in Croydon which targets criminal gangs.

A Met spokesman said: “A 13-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm and taken to a south London police station. The weapon was a sub-machinegun. She has been bailed and further arrests are anticipated.”

Sergeant Darin Birmingham, who led the raid, added: “We received information that the young man living here, who is a known gang member, had access to firearms.”

In the raid yesterday afternoon, armed officers sealed off the Monks Hill Estate in Shirley and people were told to stay in their houses. A hydraulic battering ram was used to force the door of the flat where the girl was in Tedder Road.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; bang; banglist; britain; england; greatbritain; secondamendment; uk; unitedkingdom
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To: Stoat

That’s quite correct. Nicked = “stolen”, or “arrested”.


61 posted on 07/23/2009 5:31:32 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: FlorianG

The M3 sub gun is more reliable under filthy conditions than MOST guns. There is little in the design to go wrong, with VERY few parts. It is a blowback operated SMG firing a relatively low pressure pistol round, and relies upon the weight of the bolt to keep the breech closed untill the chamber pressure subsides so that the cartridge extraction phase can be completed. This eliminates the need for locking and unlocking mechanisms, which add to complexity.

This does not mean that the M4 is unreliable. The M4, while not as brutally reliable as the AK family, is reliable enough when properly maintained, and offers other advantages that negate that brute reliability somewhat. Such as better accuracy, lighter weight, better ergonomics, and better full auto control aren’t chopped liver. It is also a very versatile design that lends itself to multi mission adaptability with a wide variety of add ons.


62 posted on 07/24/2009 1:06:42 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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