Sweet bleedin' jeebus.
'Gun photo' candidate suspendedI believe that in Texas what Mr. Oulds did was a requirement for people running for office. And the hopeful has to own a few, too.
A Conservative Parliamentary candidate has been suspended after he was pictured on the internet with a range of guns, rifles and a hunting knife.
An inquiry is now to be held into why Robert Oulds, the prospective MP for Slough in Berkshire, appeared with the weapons in the camera phone images.
A party spokesman said: "We take this matter extremely seriously.
"We have suspended Mr Oulds from the list of candidates, and as candidate for Slough, with immediate effect."
'All licensed'
A national newspaper reported that there were 11 images of Mr Oulds, 28, a councillor in Chiswick, west London, with the weaponry.
The weapons included an AK 47 assault rifle and a shotgun.
Mr Oulds told The Sun: "Those photos were taken at the home of a member of the Conservative association.
"I went round to this friend's house and he is a member of a licensed gun club and he showed me his firearms and that is it.
"They are all licensed and all legal. They are not mine."
If there's an AK in that group, it's not "licensed and legal" unless the gas system's been disabled to convert it to fire like a bolt-action.
Damn, it's sad that the nation that spawned this one has fallen so freaking far, and seems to fall farther every day. Whatever happened to the "rifle in every cottage" attitude?
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