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On August 16th, Sir John Stevens, commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, proudly displayed for reporters "a new piece of fire-power in their crime busting arsenal -- a machine that destroys guns," reported The Scotsman. The device in question is a machine "designed to cut and chop guns into tiny unusable pieces."
"The equipment, the first of its type in the world, is used by several other forces as well as the Met and allows weapons to be destroyed on site, avoiding the potentially dangerous process of transporting them to a specialist location," continued the report. Stevens gleefully ...