From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>The haul included a
>sub-machinegun, a deactivated AK47 assault rifle, a Luger
>semi-automatic pistol and a crossbow.
Only two of these are firearms. The others are inconsequential.
>Gamrie mother Susan Solo welcomed the jail sentence. She
>said: "I have a son of nine and your memory goes back to
>Dunblane and you think, 'That could have happened here'.
Still could.
>But local resident Alex Duthie said the sentence was not
>tough enough. He said: "Dunblane was a disaster we don't
>want to ever see again. I think he should have got more
>time."
That's right, punish him for offences that someone else committed.
Sounds a familiar line to me.
>She said she had heard that Swales had managed to get
>hold of night-vision equipment. "There have been some
>nights when our dogs have been startled by something
>outside, but when we go out to see what it is, there's
>nothing there. My husband said that it could have been
>him walking through the field wearing night-vision
>goggles. He could have been hunting for deer or
>anything. It's very creepy."
And it could have been the neighbourhood moggy. Goodness me, it a good
job he wasn't accused of being a witch, of they surely would have
drowned him there and then.
>The cottage still holds evidence of Swales's handiwork.
>Beside a window are examples of his bedtime reading,
>including a paperback on the history of the SAS.
I wonder how many households in the country qualify in that respect?
Perhaps WH Smiths has evil intent, because it sells such books? *What*
has got into these people, have they taken leave of their senses?
--Jonathan Spencer, firearms examiner
"Justice is open to everybody in the same way as the Ritz Hotel."
Judge Sturgess, 22 July 1928
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This is what we're up against folks. I used to go out into the
garden and yell at the cat to stop attacking the birds, does
this mean if the police find a deactivated rifle in the house
the neighbours will tell them I was running around the garden
yelling my head off and am obviously a nutter?
I don't really care what the yokels said, more worrying was
the attitude of the judge. Obviously he was convicted of the
offences of possessing three firearms illegally, but even
Phillip Luty didn't get six years.
Steve.
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