Guns and knives: councillors speak out

Though not perhaps quite in the way you’d expect. SNP councillor Jahangir Hanif took his children to see him firing off an AK-47, whilst Conservative councillor Philip Thomas has been praising a meat cleaver and two machetes as being “cool”.

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  • Hywel Morgan 8th Aug '08 - 10:20am

    I heard about the SNP councillor case. Did he actually break any laws by doing what he did? If not what is the problem.

    If I was a keen sports shooter (something which is legal in the UK AIUI even for children) and went to America and took my kids to a shooting range they could no doubt legally shoot using an AK-47, Mac-10 and probably and anti-tank gun. Would that disqualify me from being a councillor?

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