{"id":961663,"date":"2026-05-15T13:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/961663\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:55:19","slug":"man-who-stored-guns-in-shipping-container-jailed-for-seven-and-a-half-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/961663\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who stored guns in shipping container jailed for seven-and-a-half years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They discovered a shortened loaded Russian-made shotgun and a loaded Japanese shotgun, and also found two handguns with ammunition, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2.84628538.jpg\" alt=\"A firearm recovered by officers after they searched a storage unit used by Robert Weir\" data-title=\"Robert Weir court case\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Media\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Media\" data-credit=\"Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS)\" data-usage-terms=\"PICTURE DESK USE ONLY. NO SALES, HANDOUT\"  \/>A firearm recovered by officers after they searched a storage unit used by Robert Weir (Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Weir, 56, admitted multiple firearms offences at the High Court in Glasgow in March.<\/p>\n<p>He also pleaded guilty to possessing 1.7kg of cannabis with a street value of \u00a317,202 at his home.<\/p>\n<p>Weir was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison at the court on Friday, the Crown Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Sineidin Corrins, of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, said: \u201cThis was an important recovery of weapons that had the potential to cause significant harm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese weapons have now been taken out of commission and Robert Weir will spend a lengthy time in prison as a consequence of his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case underlines our commitment to continue working with the police and other agencies to ensure that these crimes are detected and those responsible prosecuted using all measures at our disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2.30965432.jpg\" alt=\"External view of the High Court in Glasgow\" data-title=\"Craig Whyte court case\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"John Linton\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>Weir was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow (John Linton\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said police attended the storage unit after a search of Weir\u2019s home earlier in the day found cannabis in four vacuum-sealed bags, digital scales and two swords.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found the firearms when they searched the metal shipping container Weir was renting.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown Office said forensic analysis of the Russian shotgun showed it was in working order and was designed to discharge 16-bore shotgun cartridges.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese shotgun was constructed to discharge 12-bore cartridges and was constituted as a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Weir\u2019s DNA was found on a number of the weapons, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They discovered a shortened loaded Russian-made shotgun and a loaded Japanese shotgun, and also found two handguns with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":961664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-961663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116578939098926528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961663","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=961663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}