{"id":153679,"date":"2010-01-08T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T13:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1040785"},"modified":"2010-01-08T08:01:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T13:01:21","slug":"man-faces-jail-for-handing-in-abandoned-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/153679","title":{"rendered":"man faces jail for handing in abandoned gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>just when you think things can&#8217;t get any more stupid it seems the government in its desire to ban illegally owned weapons has drafter the law rather badly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootingtimes.co.uk\/news\/433920\/Exsoldier_faces_jail_for_handing_in_discarded_shotgun.html\" >http:\/\/www.shootingtimes.co.uk\/news\/&#8230;d_shotgun.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:20px; margin-top:5px; \">\n<div class=\"smallfont\" style=\"margin-bottom:2px\">Quote:<\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"alt2\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>\t\t\t\tIn a statement read out in,court, Mr Clarke said: &#8220;I did not think for one moment I would be arrested. I thought it was my duty to hand it in and get it off the streets.&#8221; The court heard how Mr Clarke found a black bin liner at the bottom of his garden, which backs on to a field. He added: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know what to do, so the next morning I rang chief superintendent Adrian Harper at Surrey police and asked if I could pop in and see him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Clarke was then arrested for possession of a firearm at Reigate police station and taken to a cell.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Brian Stalk explained to the jury that possession of a firearm was a &#8220;strict liability&#8221; charge, therefore Mr Clarke&#8217;s allegedly honest intent was irrelevant. &#8220;Just by having the gun in his possession Mr Clarke was guilty of the charge and has no defence in law against it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just when you think things can&#8217;t get any more stupid it seems the government in its desire to ban illegally owned weapons has drafter the law rather badly&#8230; http:\/\/www.shootingtimes.co.uk\/news\/&#8230;d_shotgun.html Quote: In a statement read out in,court, Mr Clarke said: &#8220;I did not think for one moment I would be arrested. I thought it was my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}