This story out of the U.K. is one of the most disturbing examples of government overreach we’ve seen in a long time.
A British IT consultant traveled to the U.S., did what millions of Americans do on a normal Saturday, shot some guns, and posted a picture on LinkedIn. Not Instagram. Not Twitter. LinkedIn.
When he returned home, he wasn’t warned or lectured. He wasn’t told to take it down. He was arrested.
As Colion Noir cites from the Telegraph’s reporting, West Yorkshire Police took him into custody for a perfectly legal photo taken in another country. What followed wasn’t a misunderstanding but a 13-week ordeal.
Officers showed up at his home to warn him about “online content” and its potential “impact on others’ feelings.” The man tried to explain the obvious: the photos were taken legally in the United States. UK authorities didn’t care.
The charges were eventually dropped—but the nightmare continued. Noir highlights the most shocking part: despite the dismissal, police returned to the man’s property after 10 p.m. that same night and detained him again.
“That’s not law enforcement,” Noir says. “That’s harassment. That’s intimidation.” The victim himself described it as “13 weeks of hell” and “massive overreach.”
An IT consultant was arrested by police in Britain after he posted a picture online of himself posing with a gun in the US 👇https://t.co/3FxqGCRWiu pic.twitter.com/opxHfNAdsd
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) November 29, 2025
This isn’t just a bizarre foreign incident. It’s the predictable result of a country where citizens have no meaningful ability to push back. The UK banned guns, and the dominoes fell: first firearms, then speech, then photos, then opinions.
“This is what a country becomes when the people lose the legal, practical, and cultural power to push back,” Noir warns. When the government no longer fears the people, even a harmless LinkedIn picture can become a criminal offense.
And this is why we have the first and second amendments in America https://t.co/fKXW3zFzMx
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2025
Meanwhile, as Noir points out, the UK is dealing with a real violent-crime crisis, including a stabbing epidemic. Yet police resources were poured into arresting a man over a vacation photo. That’s the part that hits hardest: an unarmed population policed by a government that knows it can do whatever it wants.
“No, you don’t have free speech without the Second Amendment,” Noir says. The British man’s arrest, he argues, isn’t just a cautionary tale; it’s a preview of what America would become if the Second Amendment were ever dismantled. Because once you lose that, Noir says it plainly, “you’ve lost everything.”
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