Any UK forumers involved in this?

[Brit plumber]

Suffolk police seize arsenal of almost 500 guns and 200k rounds of ammunition | Daily Mail Online

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[Peter Laidler]

I'm not too sure that anyone would be foolish enough to even admit that they'd breathed the same air......... Hell hath no fury like a woman spermed

[Patrick Chadwick]

As I already pointed out here

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=55863&page=2

- in Post #12, confirmed by BigDuke in Post 19, there are no photos of live ammunition. What is shown in the photos above is a bin full of used cartridge cases, i.e. scrap brass, and a bin full of bullets. Some jacketed, mostly lead, and a lot of those look like bullets for muzzle-loaders (note the deep recesses in the bases). So essentially a bin full of scrap lead. Since a lie is the deliberate presentation of an untruth in spite of knowledge to the contrary, I leave it to your judgement whether a police spokesman calling this "ammunition" constitutes a lie.

As to the weapons: whether any of them is in fact a usable weapon, or whether they are all de-acts, is again something about which we are probably not going to be told the truth.

[Aragorn243]

Just terrifying. All those rounds of ammunition too. He could have hit someone in the eye with one of them. Good to see the UK media is just as bad as the US media.

[henry r]

that makes me sad. i'm assuming all the firearms will be destroyed.
it looks like he spent a lot of time and money on collecting his firearms, there are some pieces that would most of us would love to own (if possible). pity these was no legal way for him to own them so to do so he had to do it illegally.

is it standard police practice to disassemble live rounds, as none of ammunition looked live int the pics.

edit: you gents beat me to it.

[CINDERS]

That Bren looked good along with the Thompson, the AR-16 and...........Bugger some of them I would just like in my gun cabinet legally of course gents.

[CINDERS]

All these found a good home with me they are all inert the Red Devil was a good find as you do not often see them here. Interesting is the shape difference between the 2 Mills 36's the white one is dumpier could this be of WWI vintage.

[Brit plumber]

I was hoping there may have been someone on the forum who may have been involved in the investigation, i.e. An expert witness. There is a lively debate on another forum and basicaly the deceased accused has been found guilty by some folk. I observed the inert ammo and also that the STEN Mk3 is clearly deactivated. What I tried to say to the forum members was that the story was false and had lost credability. I suspect there were live guns and ammo but nothing like the quantity stated and I believe in the Inocent until proven guilty statement.

[Vincent]

Experts from the National Ballistics Intelligence Service examined many of the weapons and could not find any link to known crimes.

'We have asked every question and followed every line of inquiry and have found no evidence of a criminal or terrorist motive.

'The best explanation to date is that he was a collector and a hoarder who collected these weapons in the way some people collect stamps.'

In other words, no crimes were committed. He’s just a gun collector.

[CINDERS]

They may have to wait along time to prove him guilty......