Man Caught With AK47

prendy · 23-11-2007 10:12AM #1

so this guy was walkin down the street with an AK47 and a loaded cartridge....WTF
must have been some sight for anyone who saw him...scary:eek:

xzanti · 23-11-2007 10:18AM

Where? and when?

coolhandc · 23-11-2007 10:20AM

yeh heard that this morning,must have been out of his head on drugs or something...

Asok · 23-11-2007 10:21AM

xzanti wrote: »

Where? and when?

Camden St at around 9 according to the news.
He had the AK and two mags one loaded and one unloaded in a sports bag.

j14 · 23-11-2007 10:22AM

Last night about 9pm I think it was Camden St.
He had it in a bag with two cartridges, one loaded, one empty.
The Gardai stopped and searched him cos he looked and was acting a little dodgy.
I think it's time to break out the Kevlar vest when I'm going for a pint tonight!

Andy-Pandy · 23-11-2007 10:23AM

holy crap, I live on Camden Street. He was coming to get me.

KTRIC · 23-11-2007 10:25AM

I seen one in a shop for sale a while ago for €500. They're surprisingly easy to get hold of.

I'd say there's a good few knocking around Ireland.

whiskeyman · 23-11-2007 10:30AM

any news links to this?

godtabh · 23-11-2007 10:36AM

KTRIC wrote: »

I seen one in a shop for sale a while ago for €500. They're surprisingly easy to get hold of.

I'd say there's a good few knocking around Ireland.

What shop? Not in Ireland surely?

prendy · 23-11-2007 10:39AM

I seen one in a shop for sale a while ago for €500. They're surprisingly easy to get hold of.

real ones???
thats mental if true!

Vegeta · 23-11-2007 10:44AM

I don't want to rub anyone the wrong way but if an AK was restricted to semi auto it would be a licenseable firearm in ireland.

Obviously walking around town with any firearm is completely mental and this dude deserves a long visit to a prison

bcmf · 23-11-2007 10:48AM

Yeah the "special" prison out in Portrane!!!!

Outer Bongolia · 23-11-2007 10:49AM

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1123/rifle.html

jameshayes · 23-11-2007 11:06AM

I can imagine the guards eyes when he/she opened the guys bag.... $$$ Promotion!

KTRIC · 23-11-2007 11:10AM

kearnsr wrote: »

What shop? Not in Ireland surely?

In a sports shop in Nurnberg (Germany).

prendy wrote: »

real ones???
thats mental if true!

Yep a real one, it was behind the counter. I just asked could I see it and the clerk handed it over (unloaded of course). Had a price tag of €500 on it as far as I remember.

SpitfireIV · 23-11-2007 11:11AM

Ok, when I read this I thought he was walking down the street holding the AK....that sounded scary alright, but it was in his bag....suddenly the thread has lost some of its appeal :rolleyes:

Good that they got him and the gun anyway, perhaps another life or two spared in the future.

prendy · 23-11-2007 11:21AM

Ok, when I read this I thought he was walking down the street holding the AK....

i thought the same when i heard it first and had visions of a terminator style look walking down camdon street!!!!

Overheal · 23-11-2007 11:23AM

Maybe he was in cohoots with Al Quaeda

Cathmandooo · 23-11-2007 11:28AM

Very scary!

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

Ok, when I read this I thought he was walking down the street holding the AK....that sounded scary alright, but it was in his bag....suddenly the thread has lost some of its appeal :rolleyes:

I've heard of fellas with uzis out running down the quays a few months ago, does that appeal to you better

SpitfireIV · 23-11-2007 11:31AM

Cathooo wrote: »

I've heard of fellas with uzis out running down the quays a few months ago, does that appeal to you better

Emmm.....yeah, that sounds a little better alright

BlitzKrieg · 23-11-2007 11:37AM

are you sure it wasnt one of those converted Ak 47s thats actually an mp3 player?

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/kalashnikov/ak-mp3.asp

ScumLord · 23-11-2007 11:38AM

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

holy crap, I live on Camden Street. He was coming to get me.

Yes he was and know we're going to have to send someone else. Not it!

whiskeyman · 23-11-2007 11:42AM

He was probably hitting the pubs and clubs for the Thursday night drink promotions... especially the cheap shots....

muppetkiller · 23-11-2007 11:44AM

Cathooo wrote: »

I've heard of fellas with uzis out running down the quays a few months ago, does that appeal to you better

That was probably the plain clothes Gardai...They use Uzi's i believe.

Dave! · 23-11-2007 11:52AM

whiskeyman wrote: »

He was probably hitting the pubs and clubs for the Thursday night drink promotions... especially the cheap shots....

Sounds like a blast...........

jameshayes · 23-11-2007 12:06PM

muppetkiller wrote: »

That was probably the plain clothes Gardai...They use Uzi's i believe.

But they have to have guards bib's on if they are armed tho, no? So they know who is who and so Joe Doe doesn't decide to be a martyr and knock one out and shoot him`with his own gun!

Cathmandooo · 23-11-2007 12:10PM

Sorry Muppetkiller is actually right, it was a garda I was thinking of!

Story cut short was that a garda I know was in a patrol car chasing another car driving the wrong way down the quays, then he spotted a man running towards the car with an uzi gun out, needless to say the garda in question did a very swift U turn while thinking 'holy f*ck', turned out it was a garda. They dont wear the bib, just an all navy outfit which anyone could be wearing!

Sorry I hadnt had my coffee before posting

ambro25 · 23-11-2007 12:17PM

j14 wrote: »

I think it's time to break out the Kevlar vest when I'm going for a pint tonight!

I'm afraid kevlar won't do jack-sh*t if it's a real AK. You'd be better off not wearing armour (then bullet won't tumble + make a mess, just go straight through)

Still, I suppose it's easy enough for E-Euro gangs to get hold of the real stuff for peanuts and bring it over... (that €500 is daylight robbery - used to be able to get the real McCoy, fully operational, for about €100 or thereabouts in Berlin in '97).

I thought Guards had moved on to MP7s (which may be confused with Uzis from a distance)? Good catch all the same

Hivemind187 · 23-11-2007 12:28PM

ambro25 wrote: »

I thought Guards had moved on to MP7s (which may be confused with Uzis from a distance)? Good catch all the same

I dont think they have been deployed to the Gardai yet. I saw the plain clothes lads driving on Liffy street not to long ago, probably as an escourt for a money van, and the one in the passenger seat had a fairly old looking UZI. If it were me, I would be asking for the MP7's asap since I dont think those UZI's (or uzzys if you are Joe DuffY) are in the best working order.

whiskeyman · 23-11-2007 12:53PM

Hivemind187 wrote: »

I dont think those UZI's (or uzzys if you are Joe DuffY) are in the best working order.

They don't know how the deploy them in proper areas either.
I remember when Bill Clinton and Prince Charles came over, they had armed Gardai on many high rooftops with UZIs. Should anything happen, they'd probably spray and kill far more innocent bystanders that a potential target threat.

Zynks · 23-11-2007 01:26PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

They don't know how the deploy them in proper areas either.
I remember when Bill Clinton and Prince Charles came over, they had armed Gardai on many high rooftops with UZIs. Should anything happen, they'd probably spray and kill far more innocent bystanders that a potential target threat.

Very good point and serious enough that someone should raise that with either the Gardai or the press....

Man Caught With AK47

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