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‘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/
Which did the prosecution focus more upon? The dinky .22 rimfire, or the perps criminal background?
It sounds to me like they focused on the gun, so as to continue to justify their own draconian gun laws, while publicizing "guns are bad". Well I guess MEAT CLEAVERS are bad too! Do you have one in your kitchen? It's there to do maximum damage to flesh, I'd bet. You might even have a sausage grinder. You are a potential mass murderer!
More soberly;
In the U.S. a convicted felon can go straight to jail for gun possession. A convicted felon out on parole will go straight to jail for gun possession.
But let's not have everyone disarmed, or else we'll all be left as prey to those whom would rob and harm us, armed with meat cleavers... which was one of the perps previous weapons of choice, was it not?
If you are in Scotland, perhaps you could use this incident to talk some sense into the heads of your United Kingdom countrymen.
It's not the blasted .22 that is the problem, any more than a meat cleaver itself was the problem.
it is THE CRIMINAL that IS THE PROBLEM. Could there be any better example? If you cannot see that, go to your kitchen right now, and remove all knives, even the butter knives. Replace them and all the other flatware with the flimsiest plastic eating utensils made. And get rid of all razor blades too, least you or someone else be tempted to use them for a weapon.
Might as well throw out all the iron frying pans, too. Check your closet, there may be a dangerous cricket bat hiding in there. Who knows when it's going to leap out of there and bash some poor slob!
One more thing. No more golfing. For you, or anyone else in Scotland. I know, the sport pretty much originated there...but those clubs they use... TOO DANGEROUS! Get rid of them immediately. People can get their emotions wound up on the golf course, you know? It’s only a matter of time before Scotland experiences a grievous national tragedy. The game is just too dangerous. It’s the clubs themselves... they can KILL!
Thanks for posting that. I knew there had to be more to the story than the original article told.
Turns out the bobbie’s description of the criminals was good, tho’ the description of the rifle was... not so.