I prefer the big boxes of more than 500.
Posted on 10/09/2012 9:28:15 PM PDT by smokingfrog
FIVE men have been jailed after a sniper rifle was found in the boot of a minicab in South Croydon.
Tyron Harding, 45, sold the .22 bolt-action rifle and hollow-point ammunition - designed to cause maximum injury - to his fellow defendants on November 1 last year.
Armed police officers stopped Loyan Osman, 25, soon afterwards as he travelled along Brighton Road, South Croydon, in a minicab. In his possession he had 57 rounds of ammunition.
When officers searched the boot of the vehicle they found the rifle with a sniper scope and silencer attached. It was loaded with a bullet in the breach and more in a magazine.
Osman, Anthony Hosey, 28, Khadar Mire, 25, and Nathaniel Tracey, 27, had been watched by officers as they travelled from Lambeth in Mire's BMW to buy the weapon and ammunition from Harding.
As Osman travelled back to Lambeth in the minicab his colleagues followed in the BMW.
Officers arrested Osman after stopping the cab and subsequently detained Hosey, More and Tracey following further investigation.
On December 12, officers searched Harding's girlfriend's house in Huddlestone Crescent, Merstham, which was close to the location where the weapon was purchased.
In the loft they found another .22 bolt-action rifle with a telescopic sight and silencer. Three boxes of hollow-point ammunition, containing 62 rounds, were also recovered. Harding was arrested as he returned home.
Detective Sergeant Phil Holt, of the Met's Trident Gang Crime Command, said: "These men were found in possession of the kind of lethal weaponry that is typically associated with the most dangerous of criminals.
(Excerpt) Read more at thisiscroydontoday.co.uk ...
Five year mandatory sentence for simple possession of unlicensed firearms. Far more than they give to rapists and arsonists.
That's crap.
"Lethal weaponry that is typically associated with the most dangerous of criminals?"
"Owned solely by those intent on causing serious harm?"
"Our officers deserve huge credit?"
"London is far safer with these individuals and weapons off the streets?"
This is no better than the histrionic bu!!5h!t spouted by Middle Eastern despots or African autocrats.
How can any worthwhile society do that to "free" men?
Favorite caliber of wet work folks worldwide...the humble .22
It’s been common for decades.
What makes a weapon a terrorist weapon is the way it is employed, not the weapon itself.
If someone used that bow and arrow from the upper deck and fired into a crowd at a packed stadium...you have a terrorist weapon. The idea of a terrorist weapon is to induce terror.
If effective, the crowd can kill more of its own in panic, trying to get out of the way than the killer gets with the weapon, but the real measure of effectiveness is what changes are made to a society as a result.
Here, the terrorists won. We have given up our right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, have created whole agencies to spy on our own people, and tossed our Rights away wholesale while the most likely perpetrators of terrorist acts go through unscreened so we don't appear to be profiling. Not only ineffective, but incredibly expensive theater to try to convince the masses they are 'safe'.
...And we have yet to secure our borders.
to #26. I agree. The only rifle I’ve ever shot was my .22 cal Remington but at 75-100 feet (all the clear field of fire I had), I could easily put a couple rounds through your eyes without any problem. 22LR has some good velocity to them and 22LR Hollow Points are even more deadly.
My son was a sharpshooter in Iraq with the M249 light machine gun (250 rd clip cartridge box). Qualified at 1000 yards. There are several dead Iraqi terrorists who found out that it’s both the weapon and the operator who will kill you.
Never underestimate someone’s ability to take you out. Al Qaeda’s first known kill in the US was with a knife (Rabbi Meir Kahane in NYC, early 1990’s.) Silenced .22’s were the favorite murder weapon of the Mafia (and a damned good gun if there ever was one).
It is what one is planning to do with a weapon that is important. The weapon is secondary.
I prefer the big boxes of more than 500.
These bobbies would have kittens if they ever saw an average FReeper gun safe.
The Bobbies would soil themselves if they saw the contents of my gun safes
Pure fail.
Did you know if you shot at the sun with this rifle, you could put it out?
It’s a freakin’ .22 rifle, clown.
Anyone laughing at the idea of a .22 sniper rifle should be aware that the British government handed these out to the Home Guard Auxiliary units in order to carry out assassination missions and go on silent patrols. A headshot with these rifles was lethal.
As for this case, I agree that it sucks that these guns are illegal without a firearms certificate, but the circumstances of this case makes me believe that they were up to no good and that they were indeed going to use this gun on someone...
Meanwhile career criminals continue to laugh.
I figured this was somewhere in England from the place names, but it would be nice if the narrowed it down. Don't you wonder why so few articles ever mention where in the world they are?
In US papers, finding the state is rare. "Man shot during Greenville break-in." Never mind that there are 49 Greenvilles in the US. Sure, these are often local papers or TV stations, but there is no such thing as "local" anymore.
You know, without the /s tag some folks on this board just won’t get it.
OMG! I’ve got three in the hallway gun case - they’re the kid’s rifles.
Seen it right off.
Ya know I’m wondering what they would do to me if they ever pulled my truck over. I have a Panther Arms LR 308 with two loaded mags in hard case between the front and rear seats (thats my hog rifle). A Styer Pro Hunter 243 in a soft case in the passenger seat (thats my yote rifle). A Springfield 45 ACP Loaded Model in the upper console (that for two legged critters) and a 8 3/8ths S&W Model 48 in the lower console (thats for no legged critters). They’d probably hang me!
Allot of our night time hog hunters are now going to suppresed rifles is various slow moving calibers, the 300 Blackout seems to be the prefered round for that application. The use of thermal optics is also very popular.
‘Scarface’ thug bought sniper rifle for London gang warfare
‘A convicted robber who worships movie gangster Tony Montana has been jailed for 15 years for buying a sniper rifle and silencer while released on licence.
Nathaniel Tracey, 27, travelled to Reigate with three other men to buy the .22 rifle, fitted with a silencer and 62 rounds of ammunition for just for just £600.
Tracey had been jailed for seven years in 2007 for a string of meat cleaver robberies in Streatham, including one where a surgeon was savagely beaten when he did not hand his laptop.
The thug, who wrote rap lyrics about his criminal exploits, idolised Al Pacino’s gangster Tony Montana and wore a Scarface jacket.
While out on licence Tracey, with Anthony Hosey, 28 Loyan Osman, 26 and Khadar Mire, 25, travelled to Redhill, Surrey to buy the Czechoslovakian sniper rifle from traveller Tyron Harding.
Gun dealer Harding, 45, was also on licence after serving 12 years for breaking into a pub in Epsom and tying up the landlord before making off with £1500.
Prosecutor Robert Ellison said the gang were under police surveillance and were arrested after they collected the gun in November last year.’
Five jailed after sniper rifles seized
http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/9972127.Five_jailed_after_sniper_rifles_seized/
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