Philip Luty

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Philip A. Luty (* 1965 , † 8. April 2011 in Tinshill ) was an English author and gunsmith .

Life

Philip Luty grew up on a farm in West Yorkshire, England . He campaigned for the free possession of firearms and published instructions for building fully automatic weapons that can be made by simple metalworking. Luty saw his work as a protest against the 1987 ban on fully and semi-automatic weapons imposed by the British government and referred to himself as a "home gunsmith".

Luty was charged with illegal arms manufacture in late 1998 and sentenced to five years in prison, which he served in full. At that time, the organization Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) campaigned for Luty's release from the United States . Those in charge of the JPFO repeatedly pointed out that Luty, although he had no previous convictions and no criminal intentions could be proven, still had to serve the entire prison sentence.

In 2004, apparently unimpressed by his long prison sentence, Luty wrote and published two more works: one proposed a new design for homemade submachine guns, the other a method of making ammunition in-house. He was arrested a second time, but released shortly afterwards.

A third, prosecution-based arrest came in 2009 after an armed counterterrorism unit raided Luty's home in May 2009. Luty was then tried for violating the Terrorism Act 2000 . In particular, he was accused of "having created records that could be useful to a person who wants to commit or prepare a terrorist attack". He also owned a collection of tubes "which, when screwed together, make an object from which a cartridge with a bullet can be unloaded". Luty died on April 8, 2011 of complications from cancer. The ongoing criminal proceedings were discontinued after his death.

The Canadian edition of Vice magazine sees Philip Luty as a predecessor of Cody Wilson :

"Despite the decades and thousands of miles that separate them, extremists Luty and Wilson share the same belief that the possession or ability to manufacture firearms is a fundamental right that allows citizens to stand strong against their government."

After Luty's death, the British Libertarian Party (LPUK) published an obituary notice on its website: “In mourning we announce the death of Philip A. Lutys. If you don't know who he was, let me tell you that he has been repeatedly persecuted by the authorities, arrested by the armed British police and thrown in jail for nine weeks for writing a book. ”The libertarian memorandum Party ends with the warning: "Do not download anything from its website, they could come to you ...".

Others

National Firearms Center

Two copies of the Luty SMG 9mm Parabellum are part of the collection of the UK's National Firearms Center (NFC) and are on display in Leeds at the Royal Armories Museum. The National Firearms Center goes back to the English King Charles I , who set up a weapons workshop in the Tower of London in 1631 and began to build a state firearms collection.

Attack in hall 2019

In the attack on the synagogue in Halle (Saale) and on other victims, in which a total of two people were murdered and two other people were wounded, the assassin Stephan Balliet used weapons he had made himself, including a Luty SMG 9 mm Parabellum . However, the assassin was frustrated by the functionality of his weapons. On the streamed video material, he described himself as a “loser” and said at one point: “I have definitely proven how worthless improvised weapons are.” The malfunctions may have been caused by the improvised powder of potassium chlorate and sugar. During the attack in Halle, Balliet tried to break into the local synagogue with a weapon designed according to Luty's construction plans in order to shoot Jews while celebrating the Yom Kippur festival .

Publications

  • PA Luty: Expedient Homemade Firearms - The 9 mm Submachine Gun. Paladin Press, 1998, ISBN 9780873649834
  • PA Luty: A Threat to Freedom of Speech in England. The Libertarian Enterprise, number 313, April 3, 2005
  • PA Luty: A Brief History of British Gun Control. The Libertarian Enterprise, number 558, February 21, 2010

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tony Gardner: Leeds 'home gunsmith' dies before trial . Yorkshire Evening Post, May 13, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Oliver Moody: Machinegun used by Stephan Balliet in Halle synagogue attack designed by British activist . The Times, October 10, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c Sébastien Wesolowski: Personne n'a besoin d'imprimante 3D pour fabriquer son propre fusil . Vice, August 8, 2018
  4. ↑ JPFO: ALERT: Help A Political Prisoner Who Opposed "Gun Control" in England . The Liberty Crew at JPFO, 1999
  5. ↑ JPFO: A Perfect Example of the Victim-Disarming Mindset . The Liberty Crew at JPFO, Jan. 14, 2004
  6. ^ Libertarian Party: Death Of Philip Luty . Death Of Philip Luty, April 17, 2011
  7. ^ Armament Research Services (ARES): Weapons as Political Protest: PA Luty's Submachine Gun . 2nd August 2017
  8. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The deadly danger from the 3D printer . SZ.de, October 11, 2019
  9. ↑ Philip Oltermann, Lois Beckett: Halle attack: homemade guns jammed, preventing higher death toll . The Guardian, October 10, 2019
  10. ↑ Justin Huggler: German shooter's plan to encourage copycats foiled as home-made guns jam repeatedly . The Telegraph, October 10, 2019
  11. ↑ TFB: Homemade Firearms Used In Halle Attack October 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Luty, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luty, Philip A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English author and gunsmith
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2011
Place of death Tinshill