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PARK CHILDREN FIND WARTIME MACHINE GUN
061730 SEP 10
By Sherna Noah, PA News
Children playing in a park unearthed a Second World War
machine gun from flower beds, police said today.
The gun is thought to be a German model taken as a war
trophy by a British soldier and handed down to his family.
The find was made yesterday when a park warden approached
young children playing near flower beds. They fled, and
the warden discovered they had been looking at a gun.
Police believe the gun, which had no ammunition in it,
was only recently dumped in Roath Park, Cardiff, as it
shows little signs of rust.
The Ministry of Defence has now requested the weapon,
a MK13, for its museum.
A South Wales Police spokeswoman said: "We are carrying
out inquiries to find out where it came from but we
believe it was dumped in the park.
"People should hand weapons in to the police rather
than dump them," she said.
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With regard to the last paragrph, perhaps they don't
trust the police to just accept the guns and ask no
questions.
Kenneth Pantling
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
(Edmund Burke�1729-97)
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Do they mean an MG13? A bit older than WW2, methinks!
Actually I think the police may well be wrong here. I
am convinced that a lot of the war trophies that turn
up have been recently imported from mainland Europe.
Perhaps some criminals got hold of it and brought it in,
and then decided that it was a bit too big for their
purposes and pitched it into the flower beds. Seems
a bit odd for a family who have been looking after
a gun for decades to dispose of it so irresponsibly.
You would think they would turn it into the police
or chuck it into a lake or something.
Steve.
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