The UK Should Stop Even Pretending Gun Laws do Anything After This

The United Kingdom has some of the most extensive gun control laws on the planet. You can own a firearm, but for most people, it’s only a theoretical possibility, not an actual reality, which is how the British elite want it.

Guns for me but not for thee, and all that.

But, as I’ve pointed out on numerous occasions, the truth is that the only people in the UK deprived of guns are those who represent absolutely no problem should they own guns.

On the other hand, creating guns for criminals is relatively trivial, as this incident should make abundantly clear.

A lorry driver ran a gun-conversion workshop from a caravan, turning blank-firing weapons into lethal pistols for criminals while preparing for a so-called “race war”, a court has heard.

Thomas McKenna, 60, converted the weapons using a lathe and drill inside one of three caravans at a large traveller site in Buckles Lane, South Ockendon, Essex, Kingston Crown Court was told.

Prosecutors said McKenna distributed the guns to a criminal network and sent messages urging others to “get yourself ready” and warning that “the time for protesting is over”.

The court heard the network included Faisal Razzaq, who was the getaway driver in the fatal shooting of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford in 2005.

Prosecutor Emily Dummett told the court on the first day of sentencing that McKenna sent messages discussing plans to “kill”, “shoot”, “unalive” and “neutralise” Muslims and immigrants “before they are too many”.

McKenna ran his gun conversion unit with a lathe and a drill, from one of three caravans he had at a large traveller site in Buckles Lane, South Ockendon, Essex.

He sent his partner, Tina Smith, 55, links to videos which showed how to make explosives.

The couple and eight others have been convicted for their involvement in a firearms conspiracy, with linked guns found across London and the South East.

So, for those who don’t speak British, a lorry is a truck and a caravan is a camper.

A truck driver was building guns he intended to use to start a race war in a camper from blank-firing guns that were never intended to discharge a live round.

This is a common method for obtaining firearms throughout Europe, in part because the restrictions on non-guns are obviously less invasive than actual firearms, though that is changing.

Still, he took what were basically toys and started converting them into functional weapons, and he was able to do that without a large manufacturing facility or anything like that. He did it in something most folks would use for a pleasant getaway in the woods. This wasn’t a sophisticated operation involving engineers.

This was even easier than following in the footsteps of P.A. Luty. This was basically making what the American media would call a ghost gun from something that was never intended to work that way.

How in the world does anyone actually believe gun control can stop truck drivers working in campers from making guns? It obviously didn’t here, and it’s unlikely to stop anyone who wants to do it badly enough the next time around.

The UK should just stop pretending and start recognizing that armed citizens are their best defense from people who make guns to live out Charles Manson’s fantasy.

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