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More than 800 guns seized in major counter-terror operation
telegraph.co.uk ^
| 2/6/2017
| Martin Evans
Posted on 02/07/2017 10:49:35 AM PST by rktman
More than 800 deadly firearms have been taken off the streets following a major operation by anti-terror police and officers from the National Crime Agency.
During a month long operation to prevent terrorists and criminals getting their hands on illegal guns, officers also arrested almost 300 suspects.
Among the weapons seized were 200 handguns, two machine guns, one sub-machine gun, 11 assault rifles, as well as 4,385 rounds of ammunition.
Some of the weapons were seized from registered firearms dealers who had had their licenses revoked, while others are thought to have been smuggled into the UK from the continent.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; no2nd; terroritst
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Hmmmm. I thought I read someplace just the other day that the Brits were going to be cracking down on air rifles. So, if they seized that many, how many have they NOT seized?
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posted on
02/07/2017 10:49:35 AM PST
by
rktman
To: rktman
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posted on
02/07/2017 10:51:10 AM PST
by
gundog
(Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
To: rktman
Are they sure there weren’t 4,386 Rounds of Ammunition?
I demand a recount.
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posted on
02/07/2017 10:53:50 AM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
To: rktman
Among the weapons seized were 200 handguns, two machine guns, one sub-machine gun, 11 assault rifles, as well as 4,385 rounds of ammunition. The remaining 586 were cap pistols, water guns, BB guns and Pop Tarts shaped like hand guns.
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posted on
02/07/2017 10:56:07 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
To: rktman
Some of the weapons were seized from registered firearms dealers who had had their licenses revoked...
That is probably where most of them came from.
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posted on
02/07/2017 10:58:11 AM PST
by
Mr. Douglas
(Best. Election. EVER!)
To: Kickass Conservative
Boy howdy is that an alarming volume of powerful ammunition!
That is nearly six rounds each per firearm listed in story.
Who seriously needs that truly staggering amount of ammunition?!?!
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posted on
02/07/2017 10:59:26 AM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: rktman
I hope they took them away from Muslims.
And not from the British.
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:02:21 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: rktman
"4,385 rounds of ammunition"
Pikers. That's only 20+ rounds/firearm
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:07:12 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: gundog
Yeah, as opposed to the friendly kind asleep in my safe.
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:07:33 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:07:47 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
To: rktman
4,385 rounds of ammunition. ROFL!!!!!
Pikers!
To: Blue Jays
Let me check my closet. Yup. I must need at least that amount. Which different caliber are we looking at? LOL!
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:09:10 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: gundog
Deadly firearms work better than the NON deadly ones?
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:12:04 AM PST
by
IC Ken
To: gundog
800? That’s just a fraction of what Freepers own LOL
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:14:48 AM PST
by
max americana
(For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
To: rktman
It’s really interesting how all this is taking place NOW that “O” is gone.
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:16:26 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
To: rktman
It’s really interesting how all this is taking place NOW that “O” is gone.
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:16:32 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
To: Kickass Conservative
Ebenezer Scrooge’s accounting firm should get the recount job.
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:17:54 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: rktman
The respondents to this thread seem to have forgotten that with one bullet you can kill the driver of a vehicle carrying hundreds of thousands of rounds.
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:21:40 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
To: rktman
800 deadly firearms deadly?
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:27:24 AM PST
by
donna
('God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
To: gundog
It think they meant to say, “Deadly, evil, racist firearms”.
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posted on
02/07/2017 11:34:00 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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