Gun dealer jailed after he was tricked by fake police shop in Moss Side
04.10.11
A gun wholesaler was trapped after police set up a fake shop selling disagreement clothing.
Undercover cops posed as against workers who were looking for lethal weapons in the better sting.
The store was set up after police became concerned at the figure up of firearms on the streets of Manchester.
After weeks at the keep on Princess Road, Moss Side, a gang associate customer introduced the plain clothes officers to Marc Billingham, who supplied them with two working guns, an air roscoe, an imitation firearm and seven bullets in a series of pointer-overs.
Billingham, 23, also boasted that he could get a Mac-10 ring gun and an AK-47 assault rifle – as well as Glock and Beretta semi-automated pistols. The dad-of-one is now beginning a 10-year big house sentence after a judge said gun dealers would be shown no charity.
Billingham admitted possessing firearms and ammunition. Michael Brady, prosecuting, told Manchester Fulfil Court that police set up the fake shop after becoming ‘increasingly caring about the number of firearms available’ in the municipality.
Source: Manchester Evening News
The Interrupters: Hope lives, even as guns sound
06.10.11
The Interrupters

(out of 4)
A documentary on the toil of “violence interrupters” on Chicago’s violation-ridden streets. Directed by Steve James. Opens Oct. 7 at Spat Bell Lightbox.
Guns are so out of control in certain Chicago neighbourhoods, children don’t envision to live beyond the age of 30.
The city’s annual murder mate exceeds the number of U.S. soldier deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. It’s a big huge quantity when the number drops below 400, which is still far higher than Toronto’s concur — our notorious “Year of the Gun” in 2005 saw 80 murders, an anomaly.
The state of affairs is so bleak in Chicago, there has been serious talk of deploying the Nationalist Guard to patrol the streets.
Such is the almost unbelievably gloomy scenario going into The Interrupters
Source: Toronto.com