The use of ‘frightening’ weapons like the Skorpion sub-machine gun – capable of firing as many as 850 rounds a minute – is rising among gangs across the UK, police warn SteveRobson04 reports
Cashman was armed with two weapons, a Glock pistol and a revolver, which have yet to be recovered.
A Skorpion submachine gun seized by the Met police in 2021 . They were used in three murders in Merseyside last year The Met Police also reported a rise in the use of Skorpion machine guns, originally manufactured for the Czech army, in 2016 after a spate of deadly shootings. In 2015, a man was jailed for life after he was caught orchestrating the importation of eight Skorpions from Germany into the UK using Parcelforce.
“If you start bringing that sort of battlefield military weaponry into communities and discharging it, you add the chaotic nature [of shootings], [the] lack of training, no moral compass… that’s where you get now the last three times a Skorpion has been used in Merseyside someone’s been killed every single time,” said DCS Kameen.
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