We just love private gun ownership in the UK

[[R-CON]MrD]

Guns might seem cool, but when you live in a country where private gun ownership is pretty much illegal, some people just can't learn to stop waving around replica weapons. This kid just needed to be wacking off to pron on the net, not pretending he was playing in Swat-4 in his bedroom with the curtains open! Bet he feels a right wally now, everyone at his school will be calling him "Swat-wannabe" for years to come!



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5110600.stm

Family home raided over 'toy gun'
Armed police
The family denounced the police's "heavy-handed tactics"
Armed police stormed a family's home after their teenage son was spotted playing with a toy gun in his bedroom.

An eye-witness had seen Olly Trimbos, 15, playing with a plastic BB gun and raised the alarm fearing it was real.

Officers burst through the door after the family had just finished dinner and handcuffed Olly and his father John.

Mr Trimbos said it was like a scene out of "a Bruce Willis movie" when police smashed in the door of his flat in Belsize Park, north London.

'Heavy-handed'

The father-of-two said the armed officers had flak jackets, helmets and goggles.

"They just said: 'Police, put your hands up and walk towards us slowly' so I did - I didn't have any choice," said Mr Trimbos, 42.


Poor Felix - afterwards I picked him up and his whole body was trembling, he burst into tears
John Trimbos, Felix's father

Father and son were taken outside for an hour while officers searched the property, finding only the plastic pellet-firing replica gun.

He described the experience as "utterly mortifying" and said it had left his wife, Olly, and his other seven-year-old son traumatised.

"Poor Felix - afterwards I picked him up and his whole body was trembling, he burst into tears," he said.

He criticised the police for "heavy-handed tactics" and said he intended to make an official complaint.

'Replica rifle'

The information about the boy had come from a "credible witness", experienced in dealing with firearms, a police statement said.

Scotland Yard said the gun was a replica Heckler and Koch MP5 and that it was "not a toy".

"It is properly described as a replica rifle and not a toy," said a police spokesman.

The spokesman said police had apologised and that no complaint had been received.

She said arrangements had been made for the family's front door to be repaired.

[Wraith]

The father-of-two said the armed officers had flak jackets, helmets and goggles.

"They just said: 'Police, put your hands up and walk towards us slowly' so I did - I didn't have any choice," said Mr Trimbos, 42.

ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING ME. This is the funniest bunch of crap posted today.

OMG RUN, that police man has a helmet on...

[dunkellic]

who needs guns at home anyway...

[Eden]

So someone saw a young child with what they thought was a real gun, what would have happened if that was a real gun and the police burst into the house scaring the kid accidentally fireing the gun and killing himself?

They should have taken more care, by all means go in heavy if its a public place but it was a house with no more than a few people inside there was no need for such heavy force.

[Deuce6]

Wow^

I'm seriously shocked. With all that goes down in the world today, you expect police to go in unprepared? Against what they think is a semi-automatic sub machine gun? Who knows, that might have been a crack house with a few more armed assailants inside. I think the police did the right thing. They took down the house with no shots fired, no one was injured, and in the end, they apologized and are paying for damages.

That was a picture perfect raid on what was a credible target. What happened if they went in "light handed" and got their asses handed to them? Or they didn't go in at all? And it was a real gun?

[mrmong]

he shouldnt really be waving the thing around in public anyway.. it must of been spotted outside the house somewhere unless the neighbours have a fixation on his bedroom window.

[Eden]

Yes true I would completely agree the raid was a complete success, no one was injured but then thats because the family did what they were told to do.

With all that goes down in the world today, you expect police to go in unprepared?

Whats going on in the world today? I haven't heard of any bombings, or terrorists attacks, etc. lately The one thing I hate is the media deliberately pushes the whole terrorist thing to get people scared.

Now by no means should the police have gone in with no protection but some simple research on the people living in that house and a knock on the door before they break it down would have had things sorted out a lot more quickly and without the destruction of property and the permanent scar that the child now has to carry for the rest of his life.

[Eden]

I thought I might add, it wasn't that long ago when you could play outside with bbguns, We even had a policeman who happened to walk bye one day all he said to us was to "be careful and have fun" but now with the whole terrorist crap that keeps being used as an excuse to enforce this law or arrest people with no charges, its getting out of hand really.

[[R-CON]MrD]

you can't play outside with BB guns round here because of all the injured cats, shot kids, broken windows, irate bus drivers and all the other business that goes through the kids heads that want these guns to play with.

i just bought a slingshot with a wrist brace and a lot of ball bearings. me's going to crack some wabbits skulls hopefully with them on my walkabout in the Dales/Lakes in a few weeks (i have a BSA Meteor but I might have damaged the barrel holder so the barrel wobbles a bit nowadays)

[Butmonkey]

Wow next cap guns will be banned.
Oh noes thers six eight year olds with guns call teh police!

I remeber playing with plastic guns years ago, but it apears that now children are now deprived of having fun. Geeze, they complain about Video games being violent and that kids dont get exersise. So when they go out to play with guns the police barge into their house and arrest them. Oh yes if its a 35 year old man "playing" with guns, the sure, Unless hes playing cops and robbers with his children or something. but come on.