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"Gangs turn blank-firing pistols into guns"
Manchester Evening News (UK) ^ | 11/14/06 | John Scheerhout
Posted on 11/14/2006 12:54:54 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Blank-firing pistols are being converted into deadly guns by gangsters in Manchester.
Now police have travelled to Germany to try to persuade the company which produces the weapons to change the way they make them.
Officers from Manchester's armed crime unit visited the Cuno Melcher factory in Solingen, which produces legal blank- firing guns, after finding hundreds of the converted weapons in raids in the city."
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me | 11/14/06 | Vanity
Posted on 11/14/2006 12:31:28 PM PST by spacejunkie