{"id":785673,"date":"2026-02-24T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/785673\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:06:15","slug":"bristol-man-accused-of-firearms-offences-remanded-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/785673\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol man accused of firearms offences remanded in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A man who allegedly bought almost 40 hand guns and more than 1,000 bullets has been remanded in custody ahead of his next court appearance. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Fortune appeared at Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court on Saturday after police found a Glock-style pistol and a revolver hidden in a bush in Longwell Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was charged with eight firearms offences, including two counts of possessing firearms, two of possessing ammunition, one count of converting a firearm, one count of manufacturing a firearm, one count of selling firearms and one count of conspiracy to import firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old, of Mapstone Rise, is due to appear at Bristol Crown Court for a plea and trial preparation hearing on 30 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who allegedly bought almost 40 hand guns and more than 1,000 bullets has been remanded in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-785673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116125288879114087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}