British Ex-Soldier Finds Gun, Turns it Into Police, Is Arrested For It

Riots are for your when your favorite sports team wins/loses.

Yes, and, although ignorance of the law is usually no excuse, if there was no harm and the person's intentions were good, there should be no prosecution.

I can't imagine a prosecutor here deciding to put someone on trial for a similar offense. The prosecutor would be run out of town on a rail.

The moral of the story is, if you find a gun laying around, you shouldn't think "My! This is dangerous! I'd better turn this in to the police right away!" You should go "Cool. Free gun!"

Too bad he's not Libyan, or the British government would already be in negotiations for his release.

Sounds like the interpretation of "possession" is the same as New Jersey's.

Supposedly here, it's considered "illegal possession" if you go to the range with a freind and shoot each other's guns. You're illegally possessing his gun, he yours.

Yet again, I'm so glad I got out of there (NJ) when I did.

Which is the real reason for zero tolerance where guns are concerned...hard to fight back without weapons.

Gosh. England must feel so much safer now with this dangerous individual taken off the streets. Society is heaving big sigh of relief.

The worst part is that odds are a crime was committed with that gun somewhere and this innocent man rots in jail for turning it in while the criminal runs free because he dumped it in this guy's garden.

Reedited for further accuracy.

Or throw it over the fence and pretend you never saw it.

No wonder films like these are being made in Britain:

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Is it any wonder ireland wants to be free of the Brits, or that our revolution happened all those years ago. Tyranny at its finest.

Shut the fuck up.

It's a jobs worth who pushed it through to the point where it has to be processed by the courts, they will release him on appeal and might give him some dosh.

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Justice fail.

Most of Ireland is free of the Brits.

In fact they loved freedom so much they promptly handed most of theirs on a silver platter to the EU for a pocket full of empty promises.

One of the things that's been very interesting in this case - how many people have assumed there's more to it than meets the eye. The rest of us all feel like Darth Vaders just been disturbed by our lack of faith

Paul Clarkes previous consists of, uh, possession of a cattle prod.

In another story a man found a gun in a bag and was told to take it to the station...

Well yeah we hope it has more to it then meets the eye because on the face of it a law abiding citizen who was doing the right thing is looking at a possible prison sentence.

You're country sorry to say is going bonkers with silly stuff like this. Stop it.

Yet another reason not to give the government power over everything.

Shocked none of the yanks have jumped on this.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...cctv-cameras-in-homes-to-spy-on-neighbours.do

This is why I bury all my guns at the playground, where there is no chance of them ever being found.....

Does anyone here besides me think he might actually deserve that shit for willingly giving up a weapon. Willingly giving up his freedom.

This one makes me want to actually get off my ass and try to do something to help the poor schlub.







Okay, luckily, that feeling passed.

Friend of mine bought a new house, and while redecorating the basement, found a Walther PPK hidden in the suspended ceiling.

She called the cops and handed it over. They thanked her, investigated the area where she found it (prints and such), and left her alone thereafter.

This was the correct response.

It was in the house when she bought then it should have been hers to sell. There was no crime, nor need of police involvement.

Go for the Sandbox...

Admittedly, I do not know how it works in the UK, but that would never happen here.

It doesn't matter who the police arrest or why, if the District Attorney (Queen's Counsel) says no, it ends there. The police have no say in who is prosecuted or why they're prosecuted.

Our DA would have either laughed at us or been pissed off for wasting his time if we tried to bring a case like that to him.

No. The correct response would've been: "Cool! Free gun!"

Hmm... I am generally against the election of Judges (but never really put much thought in DAs), but I wonder how much the attitude you describe is due to the DA having to face an election?