Jailed Over Heirloom

[Garry Russell]

This is crazy

Couldn't they accept it for what it was......or just confiscate it with a smack on the wrists??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/10335003.stm

[fmansam]

I do agree to a certain extent with what you are saying Garry...

however...

I am a holder of a class one firearms license, i shoot regulary,
it is a strict system getting a license, and it is so for a reason,
look at the tragic incident the other week... 12 dead!!
in the time the lady has had the gun, there has been numerous amnesties where she could have handed it in. ignorance is not an excuse
finally, im not saying he is a total thug..but, the police were looking for her son who failed to goto court, i know not the reasons or crimes behind this man, but what if he had decided to use this weapon!!!

it may seem harsh, but the law is the law, i feel in alot of crimes the law is not harsh enough!!!!

cheers

Neil

[Garry Russell]

Of course not all gun crime is comitted by licenced firearm holder.....but the authorities can old try to control things

There is probably more to this than it at first seems but we will never know the full facts

[jonesey2k]

Browning pistol? More like the cartridge.
Sounds like a CZ 27 to me.

Another case of "all guns are evil" knee-jerk reactions to me.

[Jon.M]

"...the 80-year-old pistol was found underneath a mattress in her bedroom."

I thought this sounded like an extremely harsh sentence, but I also thought that 'under the mattress' was an odd place to keep a family heirloom.

I suspect that there's more to this than has been reported here. You only have to look at the reporting of the 'near disaster' of the Victor taxiing incident on a nearby thread to see that a lot depends on what reaction the media wants to provoke.

Either: Mother of fugitive hiding arsenal of weapons in bedroom.

Or: Grieving daughter has last link to dead wartime hero father confiscated.

Jon

[Garry Russell]

Indeed Jon

"The lives of everyone in the UK was in danger"

[jonesey2k]

Annoys me how the media blow everything out of proportion when a firearm is involved. All this rubbish on gun crime ect, I could quite easily knife a load of people or drive a car down a pavement at 50mph...

One of the local papers ran a story a while ago about a group of youngsters who were running around some woods with "a deadly airgun that could be converted to fire live ammo" what a lot of bollocks, it was a plastic airsoft pistol that fires plastic bb's at about 150fps....

[nigelb]

It is very interesting to read all those comments. Of course, had she lived in the Colonies ........... Guns 'R US!

Nigel²

[DaveB]

Well.. I've been married to the same woman (this time round) for over 20years and I've not been locked up yet. Perhaps being sectioned would be more appropriate

Can't really comment on the story as there are too many holes in it. Can you honestly imagine anyone keeping a revolver under their matress for 29years and thinking nothing of it?? I appreciate Scotland is the land that time forgot but there ARE limits

ATB

DaveB

[airboatr]

years ago some ... cough cough .. people I know were in the habit of filling one gal antifreeze jugs
with a mixture of O2 and CH2H = drill a 3/16 hole in the cap and stick a fuse in it.
light the fuse and watch it go BOOm... in a safe place on a farm I can't remember whhere...
average desent people out for a little fun is all

Today they'd lock you up for commiting a terroist act ..