From top: Regency Hotel shooters; Weapons seized during 2014/2015 from ‘dissident Republicans’ displayed at Garda HQ last month
‘Paul Michael Glazer’ writes:
Perhaps your excellent firearms contributor (Mark Dennehy) can help me? I was struck by the age and state of the machine guns used by the gunmen [dressed in Garda uniforms] during the Regency Hotel shooting. Why would wealthy gangsters use ancient, clapped out machine guns?
Then [Crime journalist] Paul Williams said Garda were investigating whether the weapons were “brought in from Libya for the Provisional IRA because it looks like one of the 1970s versions of the AK47. “
And then I recalled your post last month on the dissident Republican weapons put on display at Garda HQ featuring weapons as part of Garda “efforts to disrupt the activities of dissident republicans”.
As I say, I’m no expert but they look very similar and I am wondering if the gangsters stole the guns from Phoenix Park along with the uniforms?
Anyone?
Update:
Paul Michael Glazer adds:
Re: comments (below). I didn’t pose any theories it was a serious question. I am also genuinely interested in what the firearms guy has to say. Why not see if the guards are missing any weapons?
Previously: I Want My MP7
They Seemed Very Calm And Collected
Rollingnews
seriously broadsheet?
No where did I leave my tin foil hat
I say the guns and costumes were borrowed not stolen.
Zuppy wins! Everyone else can just go home.
You need to make a better clarification between pics BS :)
I do like a good conspiracy theory, but this ain’t one.
Look like Romanian AIMs.
Why would you buy a new gun when the old one can still make mince meat of someone in a car a 100 meters away?
Gangsters be gangsta
As I understand it, the AK is the cockroach of weaponry, durable, easy to use and manufactured and distributed by the thousands if not the millions. It will be fascinating if they mange to trace them to a source, but they are probably guns of similar appearance in arms caches all over the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army_arms_importation
Yes, I’m a fraid these are the same weapons. The jumpsuits however were purchased in homebase. They’re actually just standard workman overalls and have been manipulated to mimic SAS issues. Can’t believe you clocked the guns though…. You clever little monkey!
“Yes, I’m a fraud”…
Admittance is the first step.
How did that just change?!
There’s a bigger conspiracy right there…
My sentiments exactly!
And if you were changing it, wouldn’t you at least spell it properly? :)
That’s happened to me a couple of times. I just presumed it was the grammar fairy…
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice….
Sure last week or the week before, Rotide posted a lot of pretty weird messages and later that day, all of them were under Evey’s name.
Really??!!
We are through the looking glass here people.
Give me more BS conspiracies!!
Yep. Wish I could remember even one of the threads. I thought the posts were pretty odd for Rotide like. They even had his avatar and I think you need a blog or something to have those? Effort is needed, I mean. It’s very odd.
I too noticed this. I’m relieved but I now have a knot in my stomach. Tumbleweeds….
YOURE ONE OF THEM!!!
It’s all coming out now
Oh look, this gun looks the same as that gun, therefore it is the same gun. After all, there’s only 100 million of them on the planet.
By the way, Is that a deliberate mistake in the headline?
Well observed but AK47s are the most popular weapon of choice worldwide.
Would be an interesting link.
Why would they risk getting caught buying/stealing more guns when they’ve already got ones that will make people just as dead?
Did anyone *really* think the ‘ra/provos got rid of them all and got day-jobs?
Naturally!
Can’t reveal my source, but I have it on good authority that LJG is the culprit.
Lock him up.
Retro hipster gangs. THE WORST! Only artisanal wooden stocks for these lads. No fancy polymer AK100s for these guys.
In all fairness, the balaclavas are an improvement on hipster beards.
How did the Hipster Gangster burn his fingers?
He touched the barrel before it was cool
*Snort* Love it.
LOL
Excellent
Surely somebody has checked the Fair City wardrobe department?
Except neither is AK, but an AKM.
Storm? Teacup here looking for you.
AK47 – when you absolutely, positively, have to shoot every m*therf*cker in the room
*sorry, just had to get that out, and yes, I am aware people have pointed out that these are not AK47s
Jurrry Adams has issued a statement saying he has never seen these weapons, and anyone with information on them should immediately contact the Gardaí or the after sales department of the Martin Ferris Maritime Impors company in Kerry, or Mr Ferris’ secretary, Marita Ann.
Cheap, deadly, easy to make and unfortunately good at what it was made for. 1 in 5 guns in the world is an AK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQNYPYFq1c
why is nobody mentioning that the bowie knife used as a bayonet strapped to the end of
one of the AK’s in the Regency pic is also in the garda evidence pic?
It’s the old cold steel, Sir. They don’t like it up ’em.
Well David wasn’t using it
Conspiracy mentalness.
Was it the chemtrails that made them do it?
I’m only asking, like.
Was it disclosed who fired shots in the Regency?
Was it just the guys with handguns, the AKs or both?
And lo, he looked out on the wondrous new ‘grown-up’ Broadsheet, filled with Leather Jacket Guys, half-assed conspiracies and woefully incoherent Friday columns and thought…
Da Fuq?
Romanian AIM-Gs – not AK47s
No.
Btw Broadsheet: “Weapons seized during 2014/2015 _by_ ‘dissident Republicans’”?
Thanks Neil, fixed now. Sorry.