Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
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UK government urged to suspend export of tear gas, rubber bullets and riot shields to US
British law requires exports to be suspended if they are used for internal repression
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Not much chance of that happening but it needed saying. We sell to all sort of brutal regimes like the Saudis and now trump. Its a source of shame.