With the National Day approaching, the rioters in Hong Kong are ready to act again, plotting to launch a large-scale illegal assembly, and the rioters have been actively searching for and purchasing a large number of weapons recently. The police serious case team raided the one-bedroom apartment in Fanling in the early hours of yesterday morning, cracked a "arsenal", seized a pistol-type pepper marble gun, three air guns, sabres, bullet-proof vests and multiple gas masks, and arrested a first-year male student and his mother at the University of Science and Technology on the spot. It was initially believed that someone had ordered the weapons on a foreign website to come to Hong Kong, and then resold the so-called "hand and foot" criminals. The arrested boy once posted a separatist sentence on the Internet, which violated the Hong Kong National Security Law. The National Security Department is following up the investigation\ Ta Kung Pao reporter Huang Qinghui

Recently, someone launched a "10 · 1" parade on the Internet, plotting to repeat the same day last year when the police took the opportunity to launch riots in multiple districts. The police stood ready and actively collected relevant information. The North New Territories Police District Serious Case Team received a tip-off earlier. After in-depth investigation and analysis, it took action with explosive tools in the early morning of last night, raided and searched a unit of the Xinyao Pavilion, Xinsheng Garden, Juwu, Huaming Road, Fanling. After the agents successfully entered the house, they smashed a "arsenal".

The arrest of Li University students involved in violation of the national security law

During the operation, a large number of weapons were seized in the house, including a pistol-type pepper pinball gun, a telescopic stick, two sabres about 30 cm long, three air guns, a bullet-proof vest and 15 gas masks. A boy surnamed Lu (23 years old) and his mother surnamed Cai (49 years old) were arrested on the spot. The two were suspected of "possessing firearms and ammunition without a license", "importing strategic items without permission", and "possessing offensive weapons".

It is understood that the arrested male student surnamed Lu is a freshman at Polytechnic University, and his mother works as a purchaser. At the same time, the police found that the arrested male student's personal social platform IG had published words involving secession of the country, and was suspected of violating the Hong Kong National Security Law. The National Security Department is following up the investigation.

Liang Zhuoxi, the head of the first team of the New Territories North Heavy Case Unit and the senior inspector of the police, said that he was investigating how the seized items were imported into Hong Kong. It was initially believed that some of them had been sold, and he was tracing the direction of the sale. The police seized pepper balls at the scene, and the police were investigating whether the weapons targeted the police.

Foreign websites purchase and resell "brothers and sisters"

According to the news, some people came to Hong Kong through foreign websites to order pepper ball guns, gas masks and other items, and then sold them to the so-called "hands and feet" through IG for their use during the riots. The involved TCP PepperBall pepper ball pistol, made in the United States, was found by Ta Kung Pao reporter to be sold on many foreign websites, with a price of about 400 dollars (about 3100 Hong Kong dollars), a range of 150 feet, and a magazine containing six pepper balls.

According to the website, this is a self-protection weapon, but it is illegal for the public to buy, sell, hold and use pepper pinball guns hidden in Hong Kong as firearms; According to the laws of Hong Kong, unlicensed possession of firearms is a serious crime. Upon conviction, the maximum penalty is imprisonment for 14 years and a fine of 100000 yuan.