[malo]

I apologise if someone may have posted this before.
I web searched this morning for GUN AMNESTY after hearing on the Scottish news this afternoon that 447 guns had been handed in during the amnesty in Scotland. The pictures which they briefly showed seemed mainly shotguns.

I found this web page
http://www.strathclyde.police.uk/news/2003/04/news_706_030422.html



Malo

[LawDog]

In speaking of the surrendered rifle:
Although this weapon cannot be fired, it still resembles a real, live AK 47.

The caption under the picture of the rifle:
"It is a particularly lethal weapon which can cause real harm"

Make up your mind, laddie.

LawDog

[Sleeping Dog]

quote:
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"It is a particularly lethal weapon which can cause real harm"
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That quote was about a sawn-off shotgun, not the fAKe-47, so not quite as contradictory as it sounds.

I wonder how many of those old shotguns find their way to our market, via Scottish police. I'd bet they find a bunch of black powder shotguns and maybe a flintlock or two, turned in by little old ladies who don't know what they've got.

Regards

[Atticus]

It is contradictory when it appears below a picture of a non-functional AK. What if they had a pic of Tony Blair with a caption that read "This man is a liar and thief" - but the article referred to Bill Clinton as the liar and thief.

[Sleeping Dog]

Doh! yeah, I get it. I didn't notice the picture and the words together.

It reflects badly on the Scottish cop, even though he's not the one that made that association.

Bad editing in the press.

Regards.

[malo]

My point in posting this particular article was :

that this sort of reporting by, in this case, the police themselves, as it's the Strathclyde Police Force's own website, which is the largest in scotland,(Police force not website)

is not unusual in the reporting and discussion of firearm related issues in the UK. Full of ambiguous and disingenuous references which promote an ill balanced and dogmatic view.

Most people in the UK have no interest and very little experience of firearms, this would include the police themselves, and there is great scope for disinformation.

I do sometimes wonder whether this is by design or default, probably bit of both .

I remember hearing that anti-gun groups from US and UK are co-operating.




Regards
Ye canna change the law's o physic's cap'n

[Monte Harrison]

" Although this weapon cannot be fired, it still resembles a real, live AK 47. If this weapon got into the hands of criminals it could cause a great deal of fear and alarm." :barf: