Sunday, April 10, 2011

British Gun Fanatic David Evans

The Daily Mail reports.



But yesterday the self-confessed gun ‘fanatic’ was starting a 16-year jail term after being convicted of a total of 29 charges of possessing and transferring the weapons to two brothers who are already behind bars.

The gun fanatic had been banned from owning guns after he was jailed for three years in 2005 for posting an illegal firearm to a legitimate dealer in Scotland.

He told officers: ‘It might sound a bit sad but in my loft I had some mannequins which I dressed as German soldiers, American soldiers – but obviously I had no guns.

Officers who seized the cache of 16 deadly guns initially feared they may have been stored on behalf of a far-Right group such as the English Defence League.

They said the guns could have caused mayhem had they fallen into the hands of terrorists or the region’s drugs gangs.
What's your opinion? Is that a too harsh sentence? He wasn't a first time offender, remember.

Please leave a comment.

14 comments:

  1. He should have got life with a minimum term of 20 years for his conspiracy, the lies about the reason he had them and simply for supplying them to crims. If anyone in the USA has any sympathy for the EDL and their ilk, know that their core memebership are fascists and crypto nazis with an outer shell of useful idiots to give them respectability.

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  2. All he wanted to do was to prevent violence! How are you supposed to do that unless you gotz enuff firepower to outgunz the darkoperps?

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  3. Never heard of EDL.

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  4. Fuck no he should be in pound him in the ass prison for 5 years for each gun 80 years........ just for touching them, this poor dumbass got 5 for just carrying a gun to the police station......

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/man-arrested-faces-5-years-in-jail-for-reporting-firearm-to-police.html

    Come on Mike what are you going soft, 80 years......

    England has fucked up gun laws and he still was able to get guns as a criminal, how the hell did that happen in merry ole England?

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  5. In answer to anonymous's comment about 'England's fucked up' gun laws, first it's the UK and second just look at the number of deaths per capita from gun shots in the UK and the USA and tell me who has the 'fucked up' gun laws.

    Short of living in an absolutely totalitarian state, no country can come near to eliminating illegal possession of guns but it can reduce their spread so that gun crime is relatively rare. The horrific events in the Netherlands make the point for me.

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  6. "...first it's the UK and second just look at the number of deaths per capita from gun shots in the UK and the USA and tell me who has the 'fucked up' gun laws. "

    Still here in the UK. The American laws don't blame innocent people for the actions of criminals, which makes them infinitely more sensible.

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  7. Hey Richard,

    So you and MikeyB are A'OK with some poor schlep getting 5 years in prison for "touching" a gun, not using a gun not buying an outside of legal channels but just touching a gun?

    And why didn't The terrific gun laws in the Netherlands stop that criminal scumbag from getting a gun in the first place.

    Buy hey thanks for restating my point for me, gun controllers are giant Douche-bags.....

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  8. Oh yeah I forgot go take a look at, all of merry ole England's other crime stats, way up across the board....

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  9. Of course, Anon is wrong.

    If we had crime rates equivalent to the UK, politicians would be dancing in the streets.

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  10. Richard T is exactly right. The rarity of the incident in the Netherlands tells the whole story.

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  11. This man harmed no one, so far as I can tell, and you would see him locked up as if he were a murderer.

    Utterly ridiculous.

    The gun laws of Airstrip One are such a failure that they have to resort to locking away people who have done no harm to anyone, and simply have a hobby of collecting REPLICA weapons.

    You people are beyond despicable.

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  12. So MikeB you never answered the question are OK with some poor schlep getting 5 years in prison for "touching" a gun, not using a gun not buying an outside of legal channels but just touching a gun?

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/man-arrested-faces-5-years-in-jail-for-reporting-firearm-to-police.html

    Well????

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  13. To the last question about the 5 years for reporting to the police, no I'm not OK with that. it seems excessive to say the least.

    David Evans, though, and his "hobby" could very well have been the source of guns to the bad guys. Still, I find his sentence excessive too, although it gets difficult to fairly sentence repeat offenders like him.

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