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Police Sting Cracks Alleged Australian Gun Trafficking Ring
27 August 2009
Illawarra Mercury (New South Wales)
Wollongong detectives posing as weapons buyers spent tens of thousands of dollars on machine guns and pistols to take down a group of alleged firearms traffickers operating in the Illawarra.
The five-month investigation, known as Strike Force Bowl, featured six lead detectives from the Wollongong command and culminated in the arrests yesterday of three men, two from Fairy Meadow, aged 39 and 59, and a 55-year-old man from Cringila.
During the investigation police... (GunPolicy.org)