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   From: gp@dont-email.me   
      
   On the heels of YouTube shutting down Brownells’ channel in   
   America, a stranger story has emerged on the other side of the   
   Atlantic. It seems as if police in the United Kingdom have   
   pressured gun blogger Calum Long-Collins into disbanding his   
   YouTube channel.   
      
   Long-Collins, who had 15,000 followers and had garnered more   
   than 15 million views over the past few years, said he shut down   
   his site after authorities marked his work as a “forum of   
   extremism” and he was going to have to “show the police that I   
   am a fit character to own firearms within the U.K.”   
      
   Long-Collins posted a farewell video—well, one more that will   
   present a montage of highlights from his video archives is yet   
   to be posted—in which he discussed the factors leading up to his   
   decision.   
      
   The dispute isn’t new. It was about two years in the making,   
   finally coming to its denouement when Long-Collins voluntarily   
   decided to end his posts.   
      
   Two years ago, the blogger lost his firearm licenses after   
   someone make an unfounded accusation against him. The   
   allegations proved false and he was again granted his right to   
   own firearms, but investigators dug us “suspect” videos.   
      
   When those concerns were brought to light, Long-Collins says in   
   his farewell video, he tried “to change the direction” of the   
   content on his channel. “Unfortunately, I’ve failed to bring the   
   channel and the videos to the standard that the police feel is   
   adequate and I only have myself to blame for this.”   
      
   https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2018/6/14/british-   
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