For those that don't know, guns are totally illegal here in the UK. Even the normal LE force do not have them, they have pepper spray, tazers, night sticks (truncheons as the English call them), cuffs, etc, but no guns.
They do however, have a special police force called the "armed response unit" (or something like that) and these special guys do in fact carry firepower (as well as drive around in special, fire engine red BMW police cars, thank god I don't pay taxes over here, or I'd be pissed).
Well I saw one out on the street for the first time the other day, and holy macakrel, this man was holding a fucking oozy, I swear to god. Ok, maybe it wasn't sooo huge, but it was some type of machine gun (I'm sorry, my knowledge of such man things is limited), with a strap around the guys shoulder, and he had to use both hands to hold it and everything.
I guess it just freaked me out a bit, seeing something of that size out in public, on a normal street, in the middle of the day, in a "civilized" country, and the guy was just trotting up and down the road like he hadn't a care in the world. I swear I don't think I've ever seen something like that in real life before.
Anyways, I just find it funny that a country that doesn't believe in letting people or even regular cops carry guns, will then in turn, give someone with supposed "specialized training" a weapon of that calibre.
Crazy.
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