Coke-Sniffing Scottish Aristo Arrested for “Ammunition Hoard”

By Robert Farago

Maybe we should have filed this under This Is What Happens to A Disarmed Populace: Bolivian Snowflake Edition. Perhaps so, but the suffering experience by Mexico’s disarmed populace makes this story seem tame in comparison. Tame? To quote our man McDaniel, you have no idea . . . “An aristocrat has been caught with an illegal hoard of ammunition after being arrested over a street fracas and charged with having cocaine.” OK, Armed Intelligenstia, time to guess. How many rounds constitutes a “hoard” in Scotland? And the answer is . . .

James Heriot Maitland, 36, was caught with more than 50 rounds of illicit ammunition little more than a year after being granted a firearms certificate by Chief Constable Sir Stephen House.

Now, anyone want to guess the caliber?

The .22 ammunition was discovered when police turned up at Heriot Maitland’s Perthshire estate in the wake of his arrest for a street disturbance in Perth.

Fiscal depute Jim Eodanable told Perth Sheriff Court yesterday: “For reasons that don’t concern this court, officers attended his home for the purpose of securing his guns and ammunition.

“The accused was fully co-operative, but it came to the notice of police that 51 x .22 were there that …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns