Jon Richelieu-Booth faced a months-long police investigation
Steve Watson – modernity.news Nov 30, 2025
A British IT consultant was arrested and interrogated for four hours after posting a LinkedIn photo of himself at a U.S. shooting range—clad in a “Guns & God” shirt blasting clay pigeons.
The incident has sparked fury over the UK’s draconian speech laws that criminalize even images of legal firearm use abroad.
The viral snapshot shows the man mid-shot by a lily-pad pond, grinning with ear protection and a Remington 870, embodying American Second Amendment joy—but in the UK, it triggered police action under the Online Safety Act for “glorifying violence.”
British Police are crazy for doing this pic.twitter.com/tGpSzzAD2O
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) November 29, 2025
The post, depicting the consultant firing at clay pigeons over serene waters in Florida, drew millions of views celebrating U.S. liberty. But in the UK, it led to a dawn raid. Officers from Greater Manchester Police arrested him for possessing an image “likely to encourage or assist” serious violence, per The Telegraph’s report.
Jon Richelieu-Booth, a 50-year-old father of two, told The Telegraph, “It was utterly absurd. I was just sharing a fun day out with friends at a shooting range in America. I didn’t think posting a photo of me legally using a gun would land me in handcuffs at 6 a.m.”
He described the subsequent night in a cell and interrogation at the hands of UK police, noting “They grilled me for four hours about whether I was planning anything violent. I explained it was a legal sport, but they seemed more interested in the gun than the context.”
Later released without charge but warned against “similar posts,” he fumed “This is what free speech looks like in Britain now—post a photo from a holiday, and you’re a suspect.”
The case, logged under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act for “collection of information useful to terrorists,” has gone viral after Elon Musk shared the post, noting “UK: Where liking a post can get you arrested, but actual riots get a pass.”
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
“I was told to be careful what I say online and I need to understand how it makes people feel,” Richelieu-Booth said, adding that police have since visited him at home another three times and charged him with a public offence order over another post.
“When did we go from a society where you can have a discussion with somebody and go, ‘You know what? I don’t like your opinion. I’m going to disagree with you, but I’m not going to tell you why, I’m going to call the police’, he further remarked.
“When did we get so thin-skinned as a society?” Richelieu-Booth pondered, adding “I’ve always believed in truth and justice and stood up for the police and believed they are doing an important job of keeping order. Now I have no faith in the police.”
This arrest exemplifies Britain’s speech gulag, where 10,000 were arrested last year for “offensive” online content under vague laws like the Communications Act and Online Safety Act.
It’s gotten so bad in the UK that President Trump’s administration has offered escape, exploring political asylum for British “thought criminals” persecuted under Keir Starmer—from gender critical activists to immigration critics.
This May, a U.S. DRL team visited London, uncovering a chilling erosion of freedom, with arrests for “misgendering” and “hate speech” hitting 30 daily.
The team’s report detailed how the Online Safety Act creates “priority harms” that force platforms into censorship, even for just liking and viewing posts. As the squad urged reforms, Trump’s lifeline extends hope to those fleeing Starmer’s grip, contrasting America’s freedom with Britain’s post-arrest terror.
This viral image serves as a reminder of freedoms the UK lost, with Trump’s asylum offer the last stand against the chill.
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““I’ve always believed in truth and justice and stood up for the police and believed they are doing an important job of keeping order. Now I have no faith in the police.””
Wakey, wakey little ‘briton’. The high viz attack dogs are there to ( as another commenter here said ) control and collect. This twat likely knows nothing about the mass serial rape of thousands of English girls in Rotherham and elsewhere.
two men in a free palestine march+ sung the wartime soldiers song
” beware the dirty jew” police bundled them out and i heard they each got 6 months in prison, for singing a song !
Good, I’m glad this happened, if we arrest this man for holding a gun overseas, we can also arrest those politicians that have sent millions of our military personnel overseas over many years armed to the teeth
Go to it.
Still in Britain, Lucy Connolly who spent over a year in jail for social media posts and was barred by the UK from travelling to the US to meet a politician over there to discuss it, says her 13 year-old daughter has been barred by the headteacher from attending a new school. This is the targeting of political dissent by nasty authoritarians and until respect for different opinions returns it can only get worse not better.
I knew Starmer’s Britain would be bad but not as bad as this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYqOm_f4Yag
Still not doing anything to fight back though are you?
And by the way, no normal person thinks it’s “fun” to shoot guns. They’re there to fight with, not to make you feel big and clever.
So what’s the big deal? Now you know what to do. Every time you see some red arsehole or liberalist nobhead post some of their crap don’t just tut tut about it call the cops and complain about how upset you are. Get the race traitor bastards running about for us for a change.
You Know it’s right. HaHaHa
Just one reason I will never have a cell phone…taking pictures. When it becomes a crime to take pictures…in a foreign nation no less…. Oh, I forgot…Brits can’t own guns……
nothing will happen because he is a protected jew !
Has the UK government made it clear where the legal line is between the sport of skeet shooting and the Olympic sport of biathelon? How can the average citizen make the determination of what’s acceptable and what isn’t? How about boxing? Nothing glorifies violence better than that! Then there’s archery, darts, rugby, ice hockey, war movies, wrestling, the news including violent outbreaks by politicians while in session.
The UK needs another planet to live on, because what they are doing doesn’t work on this one.
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JUST STOP THEM COMING
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What stupid bullshit !
THANKYOU THANKYOU
palestinian flag to fly at Belfast City Hall following earlier rejection
Story by Hannah Patterson •
A Palestinian flag is to fly above Belfast City Hall on Tuesday, after a decision just days ago that the flag would not be hoisted over the weekend.
Jews have made bomb threats and hate emails
but we have won through
Sinn Féin have confirmed, via a social media post, that the party has secured agreement for the Palestinian flag to fly tomorrow (Tuesday) at Belfast City Hall.
The post on X said: “In the face of Israel’s barbaric and inhumane genocide, we must continue to do all we can to show solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza.” Sinn Féin has secured agreement for the Palestinian flag to fly tomorrow at Belfast City Hall.
In the face of Israel’s barbaric and inhumane genocide, we must continue to do all we can to show solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza.
During the ” troubles ” mossad would sell us drugs to sell to but israel weapons
the same with the other side
israel fueled the hate across ireland
people like that bastard Lenny henry just add to this please let the people be
As long as you have a shotgun license and police permission, clay pigeon shooting is not illegal in the UK.
The license holder must be present to supervise the event, in which case the participants themselves are not required to be registered shotgun licensees.
Clay pigeon shoots have featured on Four In The Bed several times as the chosen challenge.
If it’s not illegal to shoot at a clay discus in the UK or in the USA, then surely this deployment of the Online Safety Act can be challenged in court?
There was a gun club at my school, where we practised target shooting, using air pistols and rifles. Membership was limlted to fourteen year olds and above.
“There will always be an England . . . ”
Not at this rate there won’t.
>>> Brits can’t own guns…… <<<
That's why..
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If I was “glorifying violence,” the shotgun would have been aimed at the camera,” sock-cucker!
you english, french, german jewcock suckers
should all own ILLEGALE guns to claim back
your native rights + kill the masses of your own
traitors . but you are IMPOSSIBLE jesustard +
never have the union of jewish tribal mafia nepotism
the moslems also have . moslems have guns .
you stupid jesustards !