From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Go and have a look at this:
>
>http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm50/5001/5001-03.htm
Not yet looked, but ..
>There's a lot of interesting stuff here. Look for example
>at table 3.12, that indicates that 142 handguns were stolen
>from residential premises 1999-2000. As very few handguns
>can be legally kept at home now and this figure is not
>dramatically lower than years when they were legal, it supports
>the argument we made that most stolen guns were illegally
>held to begin with.
If you had an illegal handgun stolen, would you report it? You'd have
to be nuts. Therefore, can we be sure that these '142 handguns' are all
cartridge firing handguns, or could they include air and CO2 guns?
--Jonathan Spencer, firearms examiner
"Justice is open to everybody in the same way as the Ritz Hotel."
Judge Sturgess, 22 July 1928
--
The 1994 report "Theft of firearms" did say they made mistakes
but apparently the idea was to get rid of those mistakes - there
is a seperate category for airguns. We have to take them at
their word, they're the RDS you know, they don't make mistakes,
they are completely infallable, hasn't Pat Mayhew told you
yet herself?<G>
How do we know the police found out the gun was stolen from the
burglary victim? They could have found out in the course of
the investigation. Also I am not entirely convinced that they
would not report it stolen, after all, most illegally held guns
are owned by otherwise law-abiding people and the threat of
prosecution for illegal possession is far less worrying that
being involved in a murder case if the gun is used by the
burglar, don't you think?
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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