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"It's a Two-fer"
« on: May 07, 2011, 09:31:57 PM »
So (formerly) Great Britain has "some of the toughest gun laws in the world," according to former Home Secretary Alun Michael, gun laws that were necessary because (he said) "We recognize that only the strictest control of firearms will protect the public."

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They tell us that getting groped and probed and scanned by the TSA is necessary too, and for the same reason - "protecting the public."

Oh really?

    So much for airport security: Man 'smuggled 80 guns into Britain' by hiding them in suitcases


    An American man is suspected of smuggling 80 weapons into the UK by hiding them in his suitcases.

    Former U.S. marine Steven Greenoe, who holds British citizenship, apparently strolled through airport security in both Britain and America with dozens of handguns stashed in his suitcases on ten flights last year.

    He is believed to have delivered them to criminal contacts in the North West of England.

    On one occasion, Greenoe was stopped after officials at Atlanta airport spotted the firearms.

    But incredibly he was allowed to board the flight after telling officials he worked as an international security consultant.

    The revelations are an embarrassment for transatlantic security and for the UK Border Agency.  (Ya THINK?)

    It makes a mockery of security regulations which mean innocent passengers have to carry cosmetics in clear plastic bags when in fact Greenoe apparently had no problems carrying weapons in a suitcase.  (Those regulations were already a mockery.  Now they're a belly-laugh.)

So... did Project Fast and Furious expand to include Jolly Olde England?  Is Greenoe a BATF employee, on or off the books?

Oh, and get this:

    A number of 9mm semi-automatic pistols believed to have been bought by Mr Greenoe for $500 each in a North Carolina gunshop were offered for sale at up to £5,000 a piece in Britain a week later, according to the Times.

    More than 60 weapons, including more than 20 Glock pistols and more than a dozen Ruger handguns, are understood to be still unaccounted for.

Wow! At current exchange rates, that's an $8200 return on a $500 investment (minus, of course, the plane fare.) Still, you're looking at close to a 16:1 ROI if you can move five at a time, and he's moved at least 60 guns that they know about. At a guess, we're talking $400k worth of profit.

I am once again reminded of Father Guido Sarducci's Five-Minute University Economics class: "Supply and-a Demand. That's it."

Apparently no one in Britain's gun-control culture has taken that one.

"Criminal" as in "any buyer".

Oh, and take off yer shoes.
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Re: "It's a Two-fer"
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2011, 11:32:48 PM »
I am not up on it. Is gun crime still on the rise in the UK, like it was five or ten years ago?

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Re: "It's a Two-fer"
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2011, 11:38:23 PM »
I am not up on it. Is gun crime still on the rise in the UK, like it was five or ten years ago?

Crime in general is still on the rise in the UK.  The criminals are aware the victims are not only unarmed but prohibited from self-defense with anything that can be construed as a weapon, or without.

I'm hoping against all odds that the "law-abiding" public has finally reached the conclusion that gun prohibition means death and destruction for them and is worth wearing the LSM press label of "criminal" in the interest of shoot, shovel and shut up.
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Re: "It's a Two-fer"
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2011, 07:44:13 AM »
I may be wrong, but it seems to me like many of the citizens of our sister nations - Great Britain, Canada, Australia - and some of our other European friends, are showing signs of rejecting the tenets of Leftism.
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."

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Re: "It's a Two-fer"
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2011, 09:33:17 AM »
I may be wrong, but it seems to me like many of the citizens of our sister nations - Great Britain, Canada, Australia - and some of our other European friends, are showing signs of rejecting the tenets of Leftism.
Showing isn't going to help. It's doing that counts. Hell they haven't had guns in over half a century.
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