"Green" criminal on electric bike jailed for pistol and sub machine gun, in gun free Britain...

[2aguy]

Hey, at least this guy was using an electric bike...right? This guy was caught with a pistol and a submachine guns....he will now serve 6 years....but the question is......how did he have an outlawed pistol and submachine gun in gun free Britain?

Man rode around with loaded pistol and machine gun on electric bike

 

[Vagabond63]

Hey, at least this guy was using an electric bike...right? This guy was caught with a pistol and a submachine guns....he will now serve 6 years....but the question is......how did he have an outlawed pistol and submachine gun in gun free Britain?

Man rode around with loaded pistol and machine gun on electric bike

Probably smuggled in from the USA, given he had a MAC10 and a S&W automatic. Still, good to know that intelligence led gun control operations are ongoing. We don't want, or need guns in the UK to keep us safe, we have a Police for that function; good to see them doing their job. Well done Liverpool Police.

 

[2aguy]

Hey, at least this guy was using an electric bike...right? This guy was caught with a pistol and a submachine guns....he will now serve 6 years....but the question is......how did he have an outlawed pistol and submachine gun in gun free Britain?

Man rode around with loaded pistol and machine gun on electric bike

Probably smuggled in from the USA, given he had a MAC10 and a S&W automatic. Still, good to know that intelligence led gun control operations are ongoing. We don't want, or need guns in the UK to keep us safe, we have a Police for that function; good to see them doing their job. Well done Liverpool Police.

Your police have stated to the press that they can't stop the increasing flow of illegal guns into Britain......so you are just wrong on all counts...the guns are flooding Britain from Europe.....they can't control their illegal guns either....

Police struggle to stop flood of firearms into UK


Police and border officials are struggling to stop a rising supply of illegal firearms being smuggled into Britain, a senior police chief has warned.

Chief constable Andy Cooke, the national police lead for serious and organised crime, said law enforcement had seen an increased supply of guns over the past year, and feared that it would continue in 2019

The Guardian has learned that the situation is so serious that the National Crime Agency has taken the rare step of using its legal powers to direct every single police force to step up the fight against illegal guns.

The NCA has used tasking powers to direct greater intelligence about firearms to be gathered by all 43 forces in England and Wales.

Another senior law enforcement official said that “new and clean” weapons were now being used in the majority of shootings, as opposed to guns once being so difficult to obtain that they would be “rented out” to be used in multiple crimes.

Cooke, the Merseyside chief constable, told the Guardian: “We in law enforcement expect the rise in new firearms to continue. We are doing all we can. We are not in a position to stop it anytime soon.

“Law enforcement is more joined up now than before, but the scale of the problem is such that despite a number of excellent firearms seizures, I expect the rise in supply to be a continuing issue.”

The increasing supply of guns belies problems with UK border security and innovations by organised crime gangs. Smugglers have increasingly found new ways and innovative routes to get guns past border defences.


Cooke said that the dynamics of the streets of British cities had changed and that criminals were more willing to use guns: “If they bring them in people will buy them. It’s a kudos thing for organised criminals.”

Simon Brough, head of firearms at the NCA, said: “The majority of guns being used are new, clean firearms ... which indicates a relatively fluid supply.”

He said shotguns were 40% of the total, with an increase in burglaries to try and steal them.

Handguns are the next biggest category, most often smuggled in from overseas, with ferry ports such as Dover being a popular entry point into the UK for organised crime groups:

 

[Vagabond63]

Hey, at least this guy was using an electric bike...right? This guy was caught with a pistol and a submachine guns....he will now serve 6 years....but the question is......how did he have an outlawed pistol and submachine gun in gun free Britain?

Man rode around with loaded pistol and machine gun on electric bike

Probably smuggled in from the USA, given he had a MAC10 and a S&W automatic. Still, good to know that intelligence led gun control operations are ongoing. We don't want, or need guns in the UK to keep us safe, we have a Police for that function; good to see them doing their job. Well done Liverpool Police.

Your police have stated to the press that they can't stop the increasing flow of illegal guns into Britain......so you are just wrong on all counts...the guns are flooding Britain from Europe.....they can't control their illegal guns either....

Police struggle to stop flood of firearms into UK


Police and border officials are struggling to stop a rising supply of illegal firearms being smuggled into Britain, a senior police chief has warned.

Chief constable Andy Cooke, the national police lead for serious and organised crime, said law enforcement had seen an increased supply of guns over the past year, and feared that it would continue in 2019

The Guardian has learned that the situation is so serious that the National Crime Agency has taken the rare step of using its legal powers to direct every single police force to step up the fight against illegal guns.

The NCA has used tasking powers to direct greater intelligence about firearms to be gathered by all 43 forces in England and Wales.

Another senior law enforcement official said that “new and clean” weapons were now being used in the majority of shootings, as opposed to guns once being so difficult to obtain that they would be “rented out” to be used in multiple crimes.

Cooke, the Merseyside chief constable, told the Guardian: “We in law enforcement expect the rise in new firearms to continue. We are doing all we can. We are not in a position to stop it anytime soon.

“Law enforcement is more joined up now than before, but the scale of the problem is such that despite a number of excellent firearms seizures, I expect the rise in supply to be a continuing issue.”

The increasing supply of guns belies problems with UK border security and innovations by organised crime gangs. Smugglers have increasingly found new ways and innovative routes to get guns past border defences.


Cooke said that the dynamics of the streets of British cities had changed and that criminals were more willing to use guns: “If they bring them in people will buy them. It’s a kudos thing for organised criminals.”

Simon Brough, head of firearms at the NCA, said: “The majority of guns being used are new, clean firearms ... which indicates a relatively fluid supply.”

He said shotguns were 40% of the total, with an increase in burglaries to try and steal them.

Handguns are the next biggest category, most often smuggled in from overseas, with ferry ports such as Dover being a popular entry point into the UK for organised crime groups:

Never said the Police could stop smuggling; noone ever has, anywhere in the world. If they can't stop the smuggling, they can stop the end users, once again, well done Liverpool Police.