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"Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets"
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 9:24 am
by DispositionMatrix
No mention of the non-deadly kind.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/ri ... 26126.html
Scotland Yard today said police are seizing more deadly automatic weapons from criminals in London as detectives revealed that an innocent bystander was gunned down with a suspected Skorpion sub-machine gun last month .
Police believe two murders have been carried out by gangsters armed with the deadly military grade Skorpion weapons in the last eight months.
Last month Oliver Tetlow, 27, died in a hail of bullets when his killer stepped out of a blacked-out car in Harlesden and opened fire.
Re: "Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets"
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 12:58 pm
by workinstiff
But...but...they are illegal and therefore shouldn't exist, right?
Re: "Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets"
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 3:28 pm
by Simmer down
The place is an island but somehow they still hide them
Re: "Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets"
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:09 pm
by popgunn
But but but... they're illegal there! How can this be? Gun control works!
Re: "Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets"
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:10 pm
by popgunn
workinstiff wrote:But...but...they are illegal and therefore shouldn't exist, right?
Darn, ya beat me to it, didn't notice at first.
Re: "Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets"
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:51 pm
by Mikester
Makes sense in a kind of twisted way..
When all guns are illegal, there is no reason for a criminal to NOT have an automatic submachine gun.
I recall reading that significantly more people are killed with automatic guns in the UK and Australia than in the USA (I think we've only had one?). Yet our politicians are the ones incorrectly blabbering about "assault weapons" being automatic.
Re: "Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets"
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:10 pm
by nigel
Yep, the penalty for smuggling H&K MP5s is probably no different to the penalty for smuggling Glock 19s, or even old S&W model 10s.
Re: "Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets"
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:05 pm
by nigel
Looks like Slovakia is the place to buy your machine pistols
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016 ... -operation
Re: "Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets"
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:09 pm
by TheHunterOfSkulls
Mikester wrote:Makes sense in a kind of twisted way..
When all guns are illegal, there is no reason for a criminal to NOT have an automatic submachine gun.
I recall reading that significantly more people are killed with automatic guns in the UK and Australia than in the USA (I think we've only had one?). Yet our politicians are the ones incorrectly blabbering about "assault weapons" being automatic.
There was a guy in Australia who was making dead-on repros of the old Ingram MAC-10 SMGs, complete with suppressors plus he'd dialed down the fire rate so they were actually controllable. He was selling them to biker gangs for a tidy little profit.