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Gun-free UK: Almost 10,000 gun crimes in a year, with help from Muslim migrants

Feb 15, 2020 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Almost 10,000 gun crimes were committed in a year in the UK, despite the country being known as “gun free” due to its “strictest gun control laws in the world.” Britain has seen gun crimes rise by “27 per cent in five years and the number of firearms seized has quadrupled.”

Gun smuggling combined with the fallout from a suicidal immigration policy are to blame.

Thanks to Prime Ministers David Cameron (a total failure on immigration) and Theresa May, another failure, from her days as Home Secretary, during which Middle Eastern and African gangs and jihadists proliferated across Britain, as well as Islamic hate preachers.

A middle-eastern gun runner told the news outlet that it is “easy” to bring guns to Britain and that he can sell the weapons for over £2,000, four times as much as he purchases them for in Europe. The smuggler said that he travels to France and picks up the guns from migrant camps in Calais before shipping them back to the UK.

The “Calais jungle,” as it is known, has turned into a war zone. Even years ago, “armed migrants” were “setting up 30 road blocks each night to attack British-bound vehicles travelling through Calais.”

Truck drivers on duty were scared for their lives, with some even “resorting to a variety of tactics to get through without rocks smashing through their window; some even placed bits of pork on their trucks’ rear bumpers to deter the Muslim refugees from climbing in or moving closer to attack.”

The “biggest ever gun haul” was discovered in a car from Calais last August: 60 guns, described as “lethal purpose weapons,” were hidden in panels. The weapons were “to arm organised crime gangs.” Smugglers in Calais have been also buying illegal guns to protect what they see as “their turf,” according to an Italian counter-terrorism investigation.

With a new Prime Minister in the UK and Brexit, let’s hope for a housecleaning in Britain, including deportations of criminal migrants. Putting migrant offenders in jail poses another problem: prison radicalization. The “Queen is the enemy of Islam and must die,” preach the jihadist followers of the hate preacher Anjem Choudary in prisons. They are also holding makeshift Sharia trials in UK jails, circulating banned books and recruiting young inmates for jihad. Anjem Choudary is generally considered to be the nation’s “most dangerous” jihad preacher, yet he was released from jail to do more harm.

“Gun Free Britain: Nearly 10,000 ‘Gun Crimes’ Committed in One Year,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, February 14, 2020:

The number of gun crimes committed in the United Kingdom has increased by 27 per cent in five years and the number of firearms seized has quadrupled, despite the country having some of the strictest gun control laws in the world.

Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that 9,787 crimes were committed with firearms in the year leading to March of 2019. The number of offences has risen by four per cent over the previous year and twenty-seven per cent in five years, the latest statistics available show.

Young people represented the majority of the victims, with 56 per cent aged between 15 and 34 years old. Most offences were committed in densely populated urban areas, with just five city police force areas representing 58 per cent of all recorded instances; the Metropolitan Police, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

Thirty-three people were killed in firearm-related instances, three more than the year before, according to the ONS.

Gun seizures have dramatically risen in the UK, with The National Crime Agency (NCA) reporting that in the past ten months alone 425 guns have been confiscated, compared to 104 guns in 2017/18, per Sky News. The fourfold increase is attributed to smugglers from Europe bringing the weapons to the UK.

The NCA said that while some guns are shipped in from the United States, the majority are smuggled from Eastern Europe, leading the agency to lobby for stricter gun laws in Europe.

“It is legal to sell many of these firearms in Europe, and criminals can buy those firearms perfectly legally and they will bring them into the UK”, said Nikki Holland the Director of Investigations at the NCA.

A middle-eastern gun runner told the news outlet that it is “easy” to bring guns to Britain and that he can sell the weapons for over £2,000, four times as much as he purchases them for in Europe.

The smuggler said that he travels to France and picks up the guns from migrant camps in Calais before shipping them back to the UK….

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  1. nicu says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    Gun free are the people only – never the Muslim crimigrants ! and Germany does raids against ” Nazis ” …

  2. WPM says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    I hope the people in America read about this as the left wants to disarm all law abiding citizens ,how many guns would the drug cartels smuggle in for profit along with drugs as an expanded market for gang bangers in American cities whose leaders turn a blind eye to illegal aliens .

    • James Lincoln says

      Feb 15, 2020 at 6:10 pm

      Indeed, WPM.

      It would be like prohibition all over again…

    • LB says

      Feb 16, 2020 at 6:53 am

      There was recently a pro-gun rally in Virginia (I think) where hundreds of gun owners with carry permits went out in the streets for a peaceful walk to show that owning guns isn’t an issue. And they succeeded. Not only were there no leftist counter-protesters like Antifa and its offshoots to cause trouble like usual, but they also cleaned up the streets along the way, picking up trash and the like. Don’t worry, you won’t see the event covered by the mainstream media.

      The take away from that is if everyone is packing heat, there isn’t a brainwashed leftist or a gangbanger stupid enough to even dare to try anything. But take guns away from the people and only criminals will have them, making them that much more empowered to commit crime.

      • guest says

        Feb 16, 2020 at 11:30 am

        Thousands! 25,000, peaceful.

    • notnolib says

      Feb 17, 2020 at 8:09 am

      Former President Stinky (BO) Benghazi and his boy Eric made some mighty nice commissions on the guns they sold to the cartels. In exchange, Barackkk receives professional pricing on product.
      They even got to use one to assassinate BP agent Brian Terry who was about to blow the whistle on the operation.

  3. phergus says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 12:30 pm

    When a country lets itself be flooded by uneducated sods of all stripes this is the result you can expect. They breed like rats and few of them take the lead and get educated and become constructive to society. The largess just populate urban decay areas and as noted – becomes a war zone. This diseased vicious circle perpetuates itself like a cancer. And throw in a good old fashioned religious virus and all bets are off on how fast this cancer will metastasize.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 12:32 pm

    Don’t forget the knives. UK jihadists merely have to buy a kitchen knife to strike terror in the hearts of the dirty kufaar and the globalist BBC will defend them and make excuses for their doing so.

    Quote: “There were 43,516 knife crime offences in the 12 months ending March 2019. This is an 80% increase from the low-point in the year ending March 2014, when there were 23,945 offences.”

    Someone is fatally stabbed in the UK every 36 hours.

    • Win one for Flipper says

      Feb 15, 2020 at 3:37 pm

      I have lived in the UK three times and my son lives in London now and actually works so close to the knife killings a few weeks ago that his office heard the gun shots that killed the terrorist. There are laws about carrying knives in Great Britain which excludes Northern Ireland. In 2017/18 there were 285 homicides by knife or sharp instrument, hardly one every 36 hours. By comparison, the US had over 1500 during the same period.

      • Politicallyincorrectistruth says

        Feb 16, 2020 at 12:52 am

        “In 2017/18 there were 285 homicides by knife or sharp instrument, hardly one every 36 hours.” 243 homicides would be 1 every 36hrs. The 1 every 36 hrs is not stated as 17/18 stats anyway.

        • ConradCA says

          Feb 17, 2020 at 10:26 am

          London had more murders than NYC for a month which means that there isn’t much difference between the 2.

    • Peter35 says

      Feb 15, 2020 at 4:24 pm

      I wonder idly and facetiously, why all this imbecilic sanitizing of islam, a murderous, misogynistic, sex-driven cult which makes the late Jim Jones look like a choir-boy.
      And why, for that matter is Vidkun Quisling’s name the word for ‘traitor’ when former PM Stoltenberg and present PM Erna Solberg are guilty of far worse and (metaphorically at least) spit on their own people, while grovelling to the moslems lining up every day for ‘nav’. (welfare)

      • Pilot Dave says

        Feb 15, 2020 at 5:25 pm

        As Clint Eastwood says; “I’ll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands”

        • Chester Jachimiec says

          Feb 15, 2020 at 7:12 pm

          That was Charton Heston, but I get you drift.

        • Brett says

          Feb 16, 2020 at 1:59 am

          He also said “Get off my lawn “

      • guest says

        Feb 16, 2020 at 11:33 am

        It’s an invasion, a war. The West just hasn’t admitted it yet.

    • James Lincoln says

      Feb 15, 2020 at 6:13 pm

      mortimer,

      Of course, the UK has an answer for the knife attacks. It’s called “knives without points”.

      https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/uk-judge-knives/

  5. Diane Harvey says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 12:44 pm

    “despite the country being known as ‘gun free’ due to its ‘strictest gun control laws in the world'”

    Proving, for the umpteen_th time, that gun control laws only apply to the law-abiding.

  6. Blather says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 2:43 pm

    Proving what they say. Gun control only disarms the law-abiding citizen leaving them vulnerable to the NOW armed criminal who never obeys gun control, of course.

  7. Kepha says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 4:14 pm

    What’s the surprise? We saw for ever so long how respectful the IRA was towards Britain’s ban on private firearms (wth much help from Yuri Andropov’s Soviet Union and Moammar Qaddafi, before Reagan bombed him). We see as well how the “gun nuts” in Virginia carry out a peaceful, respectful demonstration in Richmond, while in pro-gun control Democratic cities, only the law-abiding citizenry is disarmed while the gangbangers get firearms whenever they want. We’ve also seen the O-[mal-]administration’s Eric Holder’s Fast and Furious, which to give the American gun lobby (better called law-abiding gun owners’ interest group) a bad name cheerfully contributed to the violent deaths of both innocent Americans and Mexicans. So, why the surprise that hostile Muslim migrants are arming themselves against both the governments that let them in and the population that is growing tired of their predations?

    Western Europe and North America need very badly to rid ourselves of the incubus of supposedly “progressive” politicians. We’ve made a Faustian bargain with those who’ve promised us economic security at the price of surrendering our rights of free speech, free exercise of the Christian religion, self-protection, and protecting our own culture. As for the last point of this mini-manifesto, I am not against the exclusion of refugees and immigrants from any continent or color who are willing to contribute and assimilate to our political ethos. But seeing how our Western leadership acquiesced in the genocide of Middle Eastern Christians while admitting hordes of Muslims who turned out to be hostile makes me all the more certain that we are being led by the wrong people.

  8. Kepha says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 4:18 pm

    “Progresive” and “scientific” governments are proving over and over that they are destructive of the societies that they lead. The UK’s gun control has been a failure against both the IRA and these Islamic gangs. China”s reporting of coronavirus infections and fatalities is probably horribly understated for the sake of keeping the image of an omnicompetent Communist Party intact. Maybe the Western world needs something like Solidarnosc and the dissident movements in Eastern Europe of the late 1980’s.

  9. Just Venting says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    Thank you Christine, for publishing this.

    This article is a great example of why I OPPOSE GUN RIGHTS!

    In places like the UK, Australia, NZ, and Canada, you have the right to have a firearm IF the government says you can, what type you can have, where you can store it, when you can use, and where you can use it. Self defense is NEVER a good reason for a citizen to have a firearm. In other words, those are gun rights.

    Despite many attacks on the Second Amendment, US citizens have the INHERENT RIGHT to keep AND bear arms. This has been clearly reinforced by the Heller, MacDonald, and Caetano cases by the SCOTUS.
    The 2nd amendment does not tell us what kind, when, and where we can use “arms”.

    The Second Amendment in particular, and the Bill of Rights in general, are what have historically set US citizens apart from the rest of the world. WE ARE NOT subjects, serfs, peasants, or slaves. We are a FREE people. The government is supposed to serve US, not Them.

    Americans, remember that when you go to vote this spring and fall. Vote out most of the entrenched incumbents. Vote out those, regardless of party, that seek to find ways to diminish our rights and at the same time encumber us with more laws, regulations, and taxes.

    I will now vacate the soap box for the next rant. But remember, despite my being on a rant, this is serious business. You and I do not want to be disarmed sheep while MS-13, ISIS, and similar miscreants are running loose with everything from revolvers to RPG’s.

    • Peter35 says

      Feb 15, 2020 at 4:34 pm

      “Vote out most of the entrenched incumbents”. Really? vote out the Republicans?
      You actually want Pelosi and the ‘squad’ running the Good ‘Ol US of A? Jesus H. Christ!

      • Just Venting says

        Feb 15, 2020 at 5:09 pm

        If you have a senator or representative that claims to be conservative/republican and joins in on the assault against your rights, vote that swamp creature out. A great example of who to send out of office is Mitt R. When the politicians realize that you will vote them out or recall them when they vote against your rights, enrich themselves, and impoverish you, perhaps things will change.

        I have seen too many so called conservatives caught taking bribes of various types or have their affairs and mistresses exposed to the light of day.

    • keith says

      Feb 15, 2020 at 5:42 pm

      You mention us in Australia as an example,,too true, we are screwed because we do not have a bill of rights. We are told the government will protect us, hahaha.
      As a result of this we now live in what is in essence a police state, where our political masters are immune from prosecution, the ruling party controls the federal police and big business controls the government.
      Those of us that can see the truth live in fear of our government.
      HANG ON TO YOUR RIGHTS or end up like us.

  10. spartacus says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 4:45 pm

    by the time that our “CREATOR” is done with the ‘ass kicking’ “HE” is going to lay on humanity … who ever is left will ‘bow the knee ‘ in fear and respect …….

  11. Pilot Dave says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    “I’ll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands”

    Clint Eastwood, then president of the National Rifle Association.

    • Bill says

      Feb 15, 2020 at 6:59 pm

      Try Charlton Heston.

  12. gravenimage says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Gun-free UK: Almost 10,000 gun crimes in a year, with help from Muslim migrants
    ……………….

    “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”.

    • James Lincoln says

      Feb 16, 2020 at 1:50 am

      gravenimage says,

      “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”.

      That is a factual, evidence-based true statement.

  13. Jim Taylor says

    Feb 15, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    Charlton Heston made that remark.

  14. Relic says

    Feb 16, 2020 at 12:23 am

    mumm

  15. No Muzzies Here says

    Feb 16, 2020 at 8:30 am

    People who rape, behead, and accept welfare money without trying to get a job, are not people who would care about obeying gun laws.

    The UK gun laws are preventing the good people from defending themselves, while tolerating the gun-smuggling operation carried on by the migrants.

    The government of the UK knows this better that I do, and is therefore responsible for the gun crimes committed by the migrants.

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