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Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: beet1e on April 26, 2005, 08:55:42 AM: I don't get it. A drunken Belgian spy tried to shoot a colleague, and the spy service reacted by disarming most of its field agents. WTF? It wasn't the gun's fault.

:confused:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=LAMVOEFCOVWVFQFIQMGCM5OAVCBQUJVC?xml=/news/2005/04/26/wbelg26.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/26/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=57752

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The battered reputation of Belgium's security forces took a new hit yesterday with the revelation that its internal spy service has disarmed almost all its field agents after one drunkenly tried to shoot a colleague in the head.

The civilian agents of the Sûreté de l'Etat, the equivalent of Britain's MI5, are already among the most powerless intelligence operatives in the Western world, with no right even to tap telephones.

Now, they have had their handguns confiscated on the orders of their general administrator, Koen Dassen, a Belgian newspaper reported. A working group has been established to work out who is armed and why, after Mr Dassen realised that controls were "worse than approximate".

Saar Vanderplaetsen, the chief spokesman for Laurette Onkelinx, the justice minister, confirmed that Sûreté agents had had to hand in their weapons, pending new rules and regulations.
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: Saintaw on April 26, 2005, 08:59:20 AM: Quote
battered reputation of Belgium's security forces

:rofl
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: beet1e on April 26, 2005, 09:44:02 AM: you Frenchies shouldn't laugh at the misfortune of the Belgians. :p
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: lazs2 on April 27, 2005, 09:03:50 AM: well... it is certainly the guys fault... We are very civilized here tho beet... for instance.... Violent criminals like yourself are banned from ever owning a firearm. I am sure you understand considering your views that only the special elite should have firearms rights.

lazs
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: beet1e on April 27, 2005, 09:26:39 AM: hey Lazs! Where have you been?
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: storch on April 27, 2005, 10:37:16 AM: hmmm armed northern frenchmen. this could be a serious cause for concern.
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: Pooh21 on April 27, 2005, 02:23:00 PM: When guns are outlawed then the outlaws break bones?
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: lazs2 on April 27, 2005, 03:47:45 PM: this kinda "shoots holes" in the theory that only the government can be trusted with guns.

lazs
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: Shuckins on April 27, 2005, 05:13:03 PM: Of what use is a government that is afraid to arm itself?
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: beet1e on April 27, 2005, 05:33:35 PM: I think the real reason the weapons have been confiscated is so that the authorities can etch serial numbers on all the ammo. :D
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: Shuckins on April 27, 2005, 06:42:18 PM: Yeah Beet...but then they would have to investigate themselves, and we know that isn't going to happen.
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: lazs2 on April 28, 2005, 09:50:43 AM: I gotta admit... If anyone needs dissaming... It is the government.

lazs
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: Lazerus on April 28, 2005, 10:47:55 AM: Good News. (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-fsign27apr27,0,3075858.story?coll=sfla-news-florida)

Here's (http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0436) a link to the bill.
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: Dago on April 28, 2005, 11:01:43 PM: Disarm Belgium, then we can attack. :D

dago
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: Saintaw on April 29, 2005, 01:31:26 AM: Heh Dago, I don't think it'd make much of a difference... but I doubt you'd find our king hiding in a foxhole!
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: storch on April 29, 2005, 07:33:47 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Saintaw
Heh Dago, I don't think it'd make much of a difference... but I doubt you'd find our king hiding in a foxhole!

france has king now?
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: Saintaw on April 29, 2005, 08:09:56 AM: STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORCHHH HHHHH!!!!!!

HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: lazs2 on April 29, 2005, 08:27:49 AM: I think he is from the waffle place... you know, "allmost france" My map calls it "really just more france"

lazs
Title: Let me help!
Post by: Saintaw on April 29, 2005, 08:41:39 AM: (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/19_1114782064_badamerica2.jpg)
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: lazs2 on April 29, 2005, 08:46:06 AM: yep... that's the map but an old one... mine has more of the tiny little unimportant places named.

lazs
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: midnight Target on April 29, 2005, 11:06:18 AM: I thought Belgium was just the road armies took to get to France.
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: lazs2 on April 29, 2005, 02:11:45 PM: I think they hold the armies coats while they kick france's butt.

lazs
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: Saintaw on April 29, 2005, 03:32:40 PM: LOL! No one could have described it better than you!

We hate the french more than the English do (Except for Straffo, Spooky, Moot & Ouaibe 'cause they are TEH COOL!)
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: storch on April 29, 2005, 04:13:56 PM: well it's also the famous french city where John Moses Browning did some of his best work including the design and fabrication of the excellent 9mm Browing HiPower pistol.
Title: Belgian gun ban
Post by: straffo on April 29, 2005, 05:01:17 PM: Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
I thought Belgium was just the road armies took to get to France.

Do you know there is light over all the highways in Belgium ?

Not because Belgium is rich like Luxemburg it's just to be sure the German/Russian don't get lost on their way to France ...

TRAITORS !