Posted on 02/26/2014 5:41:34 PM PST by marktwain
A Conservative former mayor and veteran army reservist has been dramatically arrested in an early-morning police raid and charged with owning a live 70-year-old Nazi wartime gun.
Officers with search dogs swooped on the home of Councillor Jonathan Farmer, 56, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and seized a German Walther PPK pistol dating back to the Second World War.
Police said they were acting on a tip-off and had a warrant to search his home for firearms. He will appear in court next Monday and could face a five-year jail sentence if found guilty.
Farmer - whose wife Susanah is acting town clerk of Wisbech - has temporarily stepped down from helping to run the local army cadet force.
He told the Fenland Citizen: ‘It was given to me by a friend, mainly because his wife wanted it out of the house. I just kept it in a cupboard.
‘When he gave it to me, he said not to fire it because it had been deactivated. He said it would blow my hand off, so I never did and I assumed it was pretty safe.
‘But I suppose I shouldn’t have kept it. It was a sentimental thing - and it’s a beautiful piece of engineering. My life as it was has been pretty much eviscerated.’
The Walther PPK handgun was a gift to the bomb disposal expert from a British veteran of the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy in 1944.
The soldier took the deadly weapon, a much-treasured war souvenir, from a captured German officer, and Farmer – the former mayor of Wisbech - has owned it for 30 years.
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You're right. The UK now has two slim hopes. Prince William, as king, might make a difference. But he'd have to be willing to risk everything to change course. Unfortunately, that fool Charles is between William and the throne.
The UK's second hope is for another Cromwell. That's not likely.
So the most probable result is that the UK turns into one huge Detroit. My advice to Wales and Scotland: Break away and try to save your own identities.
You see a lot of that “whipped slave” mentality in third world countries, especially within the EU.
“If this is what the U.K. Has become, what is the point in it ever having existed? It’s entire history is erased. It’s point in being is erased.”
They gave rise to us. We must learn from them, and avoid their mistakes.
Perhaps he has a license... to kill?
We should sever diplomatic relations with any nation that abridges the God given right of its citizens to own and bear arms.
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>> “There is a lot of German blood in the royal family” <<
All royals are serpent seed. Read Jacob’s prophecy over Dan.
Looks just like a squirt gun I once had...
Walther PPK. Um that is the gun James Bond got in the first movie Dr. No and used in many subsequent ones.
charged with owning a live 70-year-old Nazi wartime gun.
What in the wide wide world of sports is a LIVE wartime gun??
In fairness to the Royal Family, those who have commented on the issue, such as the Duke of Edinburgh, have made comments that pro-gun. After the handgun ban, he likened it to banning cricket if somebody went and battered somebody to death with one, which stirred up controversy.
Sad to say, but the pressure to tighten gun laws comes from the bottom up, not the top down.
The term ‘live’ is used in the English lexicon to distinguish between functional and a non-functional weapon. In the form of Jiu Jitsu I do, a real knife is known as a ‘live blade’ as compared to a wooden or dull one.
So, that would be pretty much every nation in the world, including your own?
Sad but almost true.
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