Stripey Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 The place was all cordoned off today, the bbc news site just said something brief about it:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4229154.stmAnyone heard anything else about this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Don't think there was anything on North Tonight about it. Considering police aren't looking for anyone I would guess it was natural causes or an accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 or......suicide? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 I nipped to the shop earlier and there were forensics and ahin there. Four cop cars, couple of vans, and I couldn't work out if it was a detective or reporter interviewing a witness.What a nosey c*nt I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 That was about quarter past six. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Cool, I never even knew we had a gun shop... Prolly wont have one now.. ffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Detectives were today probing why a man walked into an Aberdeen gun shop and shot himself.The 40-year-old, from the Milltimber area, was thought to have shot himself in the head.The man, who has not been named, died in Anderson Guns on the Hardgate in Aberdeen at teatime.full story here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted February 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 full story hereThat's pretty bizarre, I can't believe the shop has no CCTV either, given that they have a buzzer entry system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DustyDeviada Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 full story hereUmm, not quite the full story, what's the victim's name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Umm' date=' not quite the full story, what's the victim's name?[/quote']I think they want to find the family before letting the press get hold of the name, how would you prefer to find out your brother/dad/partner killed themself, in a paper or via a copper on your door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayeth Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 I think they want to find the family before letting the press get hold of the name' date=' how would you prefer to find out your brother/dad/partner killed themself, in a paper or via a copper on your door.[/quote']let alone aberdeen-music.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeC Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 That's pretty bizarre' date=' I can't believe the shop has no CCTV either, given that they have a buzzer entry system.[/quote']And they deal in firearms and ammunition...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DustyDeviada Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 I think they want to find the family before letting the press get hold of the name' date=' how would you prefer to find out your brother/dad/partner killed themself, in a paper or via a copper on your door.[/quote']Hey, cool the beans guys, all I said was that they hadn't released the name yet, of course they need to let the family know first.But I lived in Milltimber for 25 years, so there's a good chance that I will know him, so I am curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeC Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 I think they want to find the family before letting the press get hold of the name' date=' how would you prefer to find out your brother/dad/partner killed themself, in a paper or via a copper on your door.[/quote']Well I can report that the copper at the door is horrendous.....from experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 i'd imagine finding out by any means is horrific.front page of the scum today though, yet still no mention on north tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Thats some whack shit tbh.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eat your parents Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 that shop is just round the corner from me, and the police station... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Les Stroszek Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 I was down in Glasgow when I read that this news I found it very weird when I found it happened in a shop just off Holburn Street. Its very bizarre that with tight gun laws these days someone can just walk into a shop and and be given a gun without any restrictions. In fact it seems strange in these days such a shop can exist. I certainly don't think there are any room for guns in Britain at all, not for anything. Leave them to ignorant Americans like Bush or Charlton Heston... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spellchecker Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 i think the man took his own shotgun ammunition into the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Les Stroszek Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Okay sorry for being mis-informed in that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 I certainly don't think there are any room for guns in Britain at all' date=' not for anything. [/quote']There are many legitimate reasons for owning a gun and for gun shops like Andersons to exist. Farmers and estate workers need guns to control pests like Pigeons, Rabbits, Rats and Foxes as well as organised culls of the deer population etc. In addition to this there's sporting reasons such as clay pigeon shooting and target shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spellchecker Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 There are many legitimate reasons for owning a gun and for gun shops like Andersons to exist. Farmers and estate workers need guns to control pests like Pigeons' date=' Rabbits, Rats and Foxes as well as organised culls of the deer population etc. In addition to this there's sporting reasons such as clay pigeon shooting and target shooting.[/quote']and you don't got peace if you don't got a piece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Hey' date=' cool the beans guys, all I said was that they hadn't released the name yet, of course they need to let the family know first.But I lived in Milltimber for 25 years, so there's a good chance that I will know him, so I am curious.[/quote']His picture is on the front of the P&J today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Les Stroszek Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 There are many legitimate reasons for owning a gun and for gun shops like Andersons to exist. Farmers and estate workers need guns to control pests like Pigeons' date=' Rabbits, Rats and Foxes as well as organised culls of the deer population etc. In addition to this there's sporting reasons such as clay pigeon shooting and target shooting.[/quote']Well yeah thats true of course but the whole idea of the shop seems very haphazard. I don't want to sound like some peace loving hippy its just that guns are still too common up here though its got to be said not as big a problem up here as it is in parts of England for example. Anyway its possible this guy had a licenece for legitimate use of guns before the incident but that didn't stop him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 . Anyway its possible this guy had a licenece for legitimate use of guns before the incident but that didn't stop him.The fact is though, he shot himself, not anyone else. If he didn't have a gun, he still would have found another way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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