George Hill
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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6659846^13762,00.html
OMG I WANT ONE!
What to you think Spectre? Privateer material or what?
30MM Bofors like on these boats:
Nice. Too bad the Cops stole it. I'd sue to get it back. It was demilled.... it's legal. Cops just can't take something because they want. Which apparently they did in this case.
GIS for Fremantle Class patrol boat:Illegal gun packs big punch
By Tony Wall
June 27, 2003
IT IS the biggest, heaviest and most unusual weapon ever seized by NSW police - and it's set to take pride of place outside the new water police base.
The 40mm single-barrelled Bofors gun gave water police veteran Senior Constable Stan Watson the surprise of his life when he saw it mounted on the bow of a vessel motoring up the Parramatta River before the Olympics.
"I thought 'what the hell's this?' I was concerned," he said.
A joint operation between water police and the ballistics section was launched and officers raided the boat.
The owner of the 30m retired Fremantle Class patrol boat said he had bought the gun from an RSL club in Queensland.
It had been rendered inoperable but the boatie had begun making modifications so the barrel could move again.
The man had no permit for the weapon and was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, fined, and ordered to hand the weapon over to police.
A barge-mounted crane was used to transfer the gun to the police base in Pyrmont, where it has sat ever since.
Ballistics section commander Inspector Wayne Hoffman said all that was known about the two-tonne gun as that it was built in Australia in 1944.
It will be mounted outside the new water police base being built at Balmain.
Insp Hoffman said the gun was easily the biggest illegal weapon seized by his unit.
"It's a big mother."
OMG I WANT ONE!
What to you think Spectre? Privateer material or what?
30MM Bofors like on these boats:
Nice. Too bad the Cops stole it. I'd sue to get it back. It was demilled.... it's legal. Cops just can't take something because they want. Which apparently they did in this case.