Guns for hire
A small police agency is helping to keep gun crime low
IN A turf war in Birmingham, the two gangs involved used the same gun for their tit-for-tat shootings, renting it in turn from the same third party, says Martin Parker, head of forensics at the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS). The paucity of guns in Britain is both testament to the success of its gun-control regime and one of the reasons for it.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Guns for hire”
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