Quote Originally Posted by John Sukey View Post
Just an add. When the first No4 Mk1T's were
I did get a laugh about those spare barrels being called "lethal barrels" by the plod. I suppose if you used one as a club, it could be called lethal.
There was a bookstore in , I believe, Birmingham where they had a de-acted Bren in the window. However they also had the canvas spares kit which they were using as a doorstop in the summer, and HORRORS the barrel in it was unbuggered. Some twit reported that to the police.
Yes, there will always be one idiot who has to overreact! Ill bet the poor old Bookseller got prosecuted for sure! Ignorance of the Law is no excuse Etc etc! Was it REALLY in the Public interest to prosecute a guy running a shop & using his inistiative to make a window display to encourage potential book buyers to come in a browse! The Plod could have taken it away for destruction, & given the guy a verbal warning & that would be that. If the complainant had just have had a word with the bookshop owner, Im sure it would have been removed & destroyed or handed in by him!...