Breitbart.com reports: “West Yorkshire Police arrested a British business owner over a picture he posted on social media of himself holding a gun in the United States.
IT contractor Jon Richelieu-Booth told the Yorkshire Post that in August, he posted a picture on the networking site LinkedIn of himself holding a shotgun at a friend’s homestead in Florida. He was visited by local police, who warned him about the post and told him to be ‘careful’ about what he says online and ‘how it makes people feel.’
Eleven days after the post, West Yorkshire Police officers returned and arrested Richelieu-Booth over allegedly possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and a charge of alleged stalking over another picture of a house on his profile.
Unlike in the United States, where gun ownership is protected by the Second Amendment, Britain has some of the strictest gun control laws in the Western world, with outright bans on many types of firearms and rigorous licensing requirements for those permitted. When he attempted to show the police force the geolocation data of the picture with the firearm to prove that it was taken in the United States, police reportedly replied that it was ‘not necessary’…”
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