Great-granddad, 64, pulls out gun on his own...

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Image Credit: Metro [Martin Gordon's gun. A great grandfather who pulled a pistol on a woman during a furious family argument has been jailed for five years. Martin Gordon, 64, was arrested in Dudley, West Mids., on August 11 last year after he was filmed brandishing a pistol on a residential street in broad daylight. The great grandfather had stormed into the local Samson and Lion pub to confront his granddaughter over the removal of his wife?s ashes from the mantlepiece. The family row, which resulted in a baseball bat being brandished by Gordon?s grandson, and Gordon waving a gun at his granddaughter Mia, was streamed live on Facebook.]

Martin Gordon, 64, brandished the gun after ‘storming into’ the local pub to confront his family when the ashes were moved from their place on the mantlepiece. The fiery encounter was live-streamed on Facebook on August 11 last year, including the moment Gordon’s grandson began waving a baseball bat during the chaos.

Image Credit: Metro [Martin Gordon, 64. A great grandfather who pulled a pistol on a woman during a furious family argument has been jailed for five years. Martin Gordon, 64, was arrested in Dudley, West Mids., on August 11 last year after he was filmed brandishing a pistol on a residential street in broad daylight. The great grandfather had stormed into the local Samson and Lion pub to confront his granddaughter over the removal of his wife?s ashes from the mantlepiece. The family row, which resulted in a baseball bat being brandished by Gordon?s grandson, and Gordon waving a gun at his granddaughter Mia, was streamed live on Facebook.]

Within 40 minutes of Gordon pulling out the firearm, armed police tracked him down and arrested him as he sat in a black Range Rover. He was found with the firearm, a magazine of blank bullets, a pick axe handle and two tasers. A later search of his home uncovered a live round of ammunition in his sink, leading to charges of possession of a firearm, ammunition without a license and two counts of possessing a Taser.

Gordon pleaded guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court, claiming he had the gun only for protection after he was robbed of £200,000. Sentencing Judge Amy Jacobs jailed him for five years, saying the incident resembled a ‘television soap opera scene’. West Midlands Police DS Matt Nightingale said: ‘Gordon brandished this weapon in full view of other members of the public and made no effort to conceal it.

‘Quick work by officers meant that we were able to quickly locate him and recover the gun. We’re committed to tackling gun crime – we’re taking weapons off the streets and putting those who carry them behind bars.’. A pair of brothers were previously jailed after trying to smuggle loaded guns in the panel of a microwave.

Cadien Pink, 41, and Edward Pink, 46, ordered one Taurus and three Glock-type pistols with 59 rounds of ammo from Florida. The guns, with the serial numbers removed, were posted to a business in Newham, east London, but were scanned by the US’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) branch.

Agents told the Metropolitan Police who arrested the Pink brothers and discovered a voice note on Cadien’s phone from a US contact, discussing the models and specifications of guns he had requested. Cadien, from Surrey, was jailed for 14 years and Edward, from Streatham, south London, received 12 years.

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