From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>One 'military' storage facility lay inside a sub-division
>where I served as a police officer. They were constantly
>reporting items missing.
>
>Quite often these are audit or inventory errors.
>
I wonder (if the word on the street is right) how they account for some of
their stock? I hear (but only many down the line, not first or second hand,
so I maybe misinformed) that there's a glut of 9mm pistols coming onto the
black-market, none bear any serial numbers (never stamped) and of various
types (brownings and berettas were mentioned). Seems plausible with the
withdrawal from NI that the unmarked "carry" guns for off duty use that were
rumored to exist are being disposed of...And no official records exist of
their existence!
On another note I also hear that a range that was closed down some years ago
(on safety grounds) is back in use, not by civilians, but by the Tactical
Weapons And Techniques Squad (TWATS, not my descriptor BTW) of one local
force (not the normal AFO's). One local farmer apparently said he saw
several box fulls of gear going onto the range over the last few months, so
at least they are getting some practice, though the firearms they were
shooting were described as probably seized firearms by another source
(supposition I suspect, though they can't afford enough ammo normally),
there have apparently also been some accounting discrepancy's with their
seizures too.
Both the above are unsupported, I have NO direct knowledge, but as this is
an open forum even rumors can be of interest.
Niel.
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Well, the first part sounds like a fairy tale to me. Certainly
the idea that they are carry guns from NI that were at any point
legally held. Perhaps the UVF and UFF are selling some off!
Steve.
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