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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England is a dystopian hell. It’s a nightmare on steroids.
So stupid, the Brits should have just surrendered when the Spanish, then the French wanted to invade earlier in their history, they could have saved the fight against socialist paradise by several centuries.
The UK has become exactly what Nazi Germany wanted it to be—minus the German language.
OMG - a “live” gun!
The UK has become exactly what Nazi Germany wanted it to be—minus the German language.
There is a lot of German blood in the royal family.. Just sayin..
WTH? their genetic breeding program was FAR superior than what i thought it was.
England is a gun grabbers day dream. The liberals drool over disarming the citizens of this country and imposing a socialist authoritarian utopia.
If the guy was labor, probably very little would be said.
‘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.’
Apparently England truly has become a nation of whipped slaves. “I shouldn’t have kept it”, indeed. “Shame on me”
The UK govt gave in compensation $1 million to a former gitmo inmate Moazam Beg. Beg was at an Al queda training camp training future terrorists.
The UK is gone.
The liberals drool over disarming the citizens of this country and imposing a socialist authoritarian utopia..................... In the meantime, they hack soldiers to death and chop off their heads as they walk by on the street. When the wrong people make the laws, nothing goes right again without the shedding of blood.
This is why its so disheartening to see Ukraine being taken in by the sodomite EU. This is what awaits them.
I'm hiding under my bed right now.
Actually, I'm hiding a live gun under my bed right now.
Live gun? Deadly weapon? Here’s a phrase for them; castrated empire.
More stupidity from the UK.
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.
And this guy just easily caves.
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