Briton convicted over gun factory
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A British man has been convicted of running a gun factory that converted replica machine guns into live weapons which have been linked to a series of fatal shootings.
Grant Wilkinson, 34, was convicted at Reading Crown Court of a string of offences, including conspiracy to sell or transfer firearms and ammunition.
Some of the MAC-10 machine guns he worked on were linked to 52 shootings, including nine murders, eight of which were in London, police said.
One was the killing of a 17-year-old, shot dead in his bed in London in a case of mistaken identity.
Wilkinson bought the blank-firing replica guns on the pretence they were to be used in a James Bond film, police said.
He then converted them in a building at Three Mile Cross in Berkshire before selling them on.
- Reuters
