Quote Originally Posted by illuminati
"The potentially lethal weapons are often converted by criminals to fire real bullets, and can be bought easily in high-street shops and on websites."

This is totally and wholly unture.
Aye, you're correct. Airsoft guns (which it probably was) DO look very real. However, they are usually significantly smaller than their real counterparts. They are also usually made out of plastic, especially the barrels. It's simply impossible to make one of these toys fire bullets. They usually use springs or CO2 to shoot their BB's. Whoever wrote that last part is probably retarded. Literally. Like....has down syndrome or something.
DaBudhaStank Reviewed by DaBudhaStank on . Man shot 3 times for wearing Obama t-shirt A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt. Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend â??Believeâ??. The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting â??I f***ing hate n*****sâ?? and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him. The man Rating: 5