But criminal gangs have been adapting the guns by fitting special steel sleeves inside the chamber of the gun, enabling live .22 calibre bullets to be fired. In October, Bradford taxi driver Mohammed ...

Brocock has performed well financially and the most recent complete accounts it has filed, for 1999, show it made a gross profit of more than £500,000 on a turnover of nearly £2 million, up from ...

Although the weapon looks fearsome, it can be bought legally over the counter for little more than £120. It is designed to fire pellets using compressed air cartridges, but gangsters are ...