A tide of converted replica firearms began flooding the underworld in the first decade of the 21th century. In the late nineties and early noughties, the weapon of choice had been the machine gun, as automatic weapons, many of them from former Eastern Bloc countries, were smuggled to the port of Liverpool before washing up in Manchester's gangland. The MAC-10 was a particularly deadly weapon favoured by the gangs of Longsight and Moss Side. One Manchester gang... (GunPolicy.org)