Posted on 07/31/2019 4:44:39 AM PDT by marktwain
A young man in the United Kingdom has been arrested, tried and convicted of attempting to possess a pistol and ammunition with the intent of endangering life. In June of 2018, he purchased a Glock 17 and five rounds of ammunition on the dark web. The cost was £300 in bitcoin. The papers in the UK say the pistol and ammunition were intercepted at the Newark Airport in New Jersey. That is probably true. Many of these sorts of actions are preceded by a “sting”. I would not be surprised if the firearm and ammunition were ordered in a sting operation. From the dailymail.co.uk:
A teenager who saw Anders Breivik and those behind the Columbine High School massacre as his ‘poster boys' was today convicted of attempting to possess a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
Kyle Davies, 19, ordered a Glock 17 handgun and five rounds of ammunition from an online gun dealer on the dark web after developing a ‘deep and persistent' interest in mass shootings during his A-Levels.
The order purchased by Bitcoin was intercepted by Homeland Security at Newark Airport in New York, with police arresting Davies at his home in Gloucester after delivering a dummy package to him.
A jury at Gloucester Crown Court unanimously convicted Davies of attempting to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life and attempting to possess five rounds of ammunition with intent to endanger life.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
So he can choose a gender that denies chromosomal science, but he can’t have a gun? He can smoke & drink.
New Glock 19s run about $650 around here, I looked when at the range yesterday. I would expect selling one illegally would bring more.
Concur with your assessment.
Illegal Glocks in Australia bring about $2,000-$3,000, I have read.
If there's any truth to this, the descriptor needs to be "ILLEGAL gun dealer".
Somethin stinketh.. d;^)
It says the sale was “on the dark web”.
So it was an unregulated sale.
I was offered nearly $3000 (Australian) to sell my handgun onto somebody who wanted a weapon and could not get a licence (for good reason, I think, in his case). And it’s far from a Glock.
That would make sense.
Five rounds? Wouldn’t fill the clip...
He did not actually posses a gun. He was arrested for trying to buy a gun.
There was no gun. What was the crime?
Let’s see. Suppose someone in a store tries to put a piece of merchandise in his pocket and walk out, but actually has only stolen an empty box. Is that the crime of shoplifting?
Suppose a man thinks the lump on the bed is his dog, and shoots it, but it’s only a pillow. Crime?
Suppose a man thinks the lump on the bed is his wife, and shoots it, but it’s his dog. Crime?
A decoy policewoman posing as a hooker gets a man to give her money for sex. He’s arrested, she’s not.
A cop solicits a hooker and gives her money for sex then arrests her.
Consider the story of a local police department who set a dummy buck on the side of the road and arrested anyone trying to shoot it for hunting out-of-season.
Glocks don’t use “clips”.
“...the evidence that he was inspired by mass murderers was sufficient to convict him of attempted crimes.”
1st Degree Wrongthink.
Off with his head.
I’m willing to bet they didn’t use the Bitcoin exchange rate from the day the trade went through.
It’s a magazine.
“Wouldn’t fill the clip...”
Um, perhaps you meant to say “magazine” instead of “clip?”
The term clip is slowly being switched back and forth with magazine. It’s becoming a generic term; I’ve heard it used both ways on the range even by an instructor.
Britain is now a fascistic loony bin. You get arrested for criticizing Islam online. Your interest in firearms is noted. Boris Johnson intends to flood the country with more Muslims.
No plans to ever visit UK. I’ll get my own fish & chips and London gin here.
....”Five rounds? Wouldn’t fill the clip...” actually,
it’s a magazine, not a clip.... but my thoughts exactly...
only 5 rounds...?? what kind of mischief and mayhem was
he planning with only 5 rounds....? something does not
sound right.....just does not make sense....
I don't think that this story has anything to do with guns really. Firearms are just convenient hobgoblins to scare Brits. Im not up on use of media to form public opinion to control masses and all of that kind of stuff but Im confident that this story is early ground work for English attempts at somehow banning or blocking the common person from accessing what we presently think of as the dark web.
The internet in its present form will soon reach an evolutionary dead end and more and more people are becoming so concerned about privacy and censorship that they are turning to the dark web. The dark web and how its control is distributed threatens establishments and status quo of present governments world wide.
Rather than ramble on, Id like to offer this video, How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream, to illustrate what Im speaking to. At first the presenter seems like the stereotypical drug addled professor but continue to pay attention hes going somewhere important. I really don't think that Im making a poor assumption to believe that Trump and present administration would probably like more of us to better understand this upcoming issue.
You see, on the dark web there is no main stream media that can create a monopoly to attempt to control your thoughts and no way to censor those who speak contrary to government in an effort to corral everyone back on to the plantation of the governments choice. Understanding that the dark web has great positive potential to increase freedom also exposes us to the negative side, the very "dark" side of human endeavors. Not just drugs or guns or other things governments have told us are evil but things that in reality we all intuitively understand to be true evil like human trafficking and as all of you that have been paying attention know, ending human trafficking has been half the effort of the Trump administration thus far.
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