Double D,

If, indeed, Mick Shepherd has been supplying guns to criminals, he needs to have the book thrown at him. The reason I am skeptical about this is:

1. The BBC talked about simultaneous arrests having been made in the UK (Mick) and in New Jersey on a gun smuggling charge. Turns out that the arrests were not connected in any way. The NJ arrest was to someone from one of the breakaway IRA groups

2. There was considerable noise being made about confiscating M 16 rifles from his home. Turned out that theyw ere not M 16s after all, just Armi Jaeger 22lrs that looked like M 16s

3. After this, the Bol2378s and Bul&%$it Corporation talked about "automatic pump action shotguns." I saw the TV boradcast over the case and only saw huge numbers of black powder rifles and shotguns of different kinds. The man was probably an idiot and had shotshells lying around in his car and in his house. The media hoopla over his arrest is disgraceful, and, if he is found not guilty, defamatory. I hope, for the sake of gun owners in the UK that he is found not guilty and he decides to sue the BBC, the Times, the Guardian and other yellow anti gun rags