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UK: Gun smuggling is 'easy'
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"AS Britain struggled to understand yet another brutal gun murder in the wake of the Harvey Nichols horror, a former armed response officer told us of the ease at which guns were being smuggled into the country. "
"Roger Gray, who worked with ... the armed response unit of the Metropolitan Police, revealed guns were coming in to the country through sea ports, in luggage and lorries."
"The smuggling of the weapons, some of which he said were manufactured in India and China, others sold in Eastern Europe, was made easier due to easier communications and international travel connections."
"Mr Gray, who has written the book Armed Response about his experiences in the Met, described Britain's borders as 'porous to say the least'." ... |
| Comment by:
stevemcp@verizon.net
(9/14/2005)
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| So why not just pass a law banning...oh, right, I forgot. Never mind. |
| Comment by:
Asc
(9/15/2005)
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"Mr Gray was not hopeful for the future of cracking down on gun crime, despite the Government's proposed Violent Crime Bill, saying Brits would have to learn to live with it.
"I don’t think we are going to be able to stamp it out I think we are going to have to live with it," he said."
You will live with it. Your subjects, who are defenseless and do not have armed guards like you do, will die with it.
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Defender
(9/15/2005)
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An interesting side-effect of the glo-bull economy and One Europe, hm? British gunsmiths out of work and on the dole, and foreigners far away making big money off of the supply vacuum. And criminals still getting guns.
Prohibition. Best thing that ever happened to organized crime.
I hope some of these guns are finding their way into the hands of the good guys. |
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