{"id":303055,"date":"2026-02-17T20:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:12:15","slug":"shocking-man-brazenly-buys-gun-in-middle-of-limerick-town-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303055\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shocking&#8217;: Man brazenly buys gun in middle of Limerick town on Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOCALS were left stunned after seeing a man brandishing a firearm in a County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> town in the middle of the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking incident occurred in Kilmallock at around 3.30pm on Saturday, February 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A video, which has been widely shared on social media, purportedly shows a sniper rifle being exchanged between two men. A car is parked on double yellow lines beside them.<\/p>\n<p>Following a media query from Limerick Live, a garda spokesperson confirmed they received a report of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA male was alleged to be in possession of a firearm in Kilmallock, County Limerick on Saturday, February 14. Enquiries are ongoing,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/home\/2017299\/car-overturns-during-multiple-vehicle-collision-in-middle-of-limerick-town.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Car overturns during multiple-vehicle collision in middle of Limerick town<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is understood that there was no further incident involving the firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Live has been informed the sniper rifle was being sold on the street.<\/p>\n<p>One local said: \u201cThe town was busy as t\u2019was Valentine\u2019s Day with people out and about and men buying flowers and chocolates but this fella was buying a rifle. It&#8217;s shocking stuff &#8211; the brazenness of it beggars belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOCALS were left stunned after seeing a man brandishing a firearm in a County Limerick town in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,2177,61,60,4588,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-303055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-county-limerick","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kilmallock","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}