More than 700 firearms have been recovered after a five-year project to prevent guns entering the UK. The operation was led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) who worked alongside the Guardia Civil in Spain, UK policing and border force and international gun sellers.
So far, 703 firearms have been recovered in the UK and the NCA have made 74 arrests, 50 convictions and searched 133 premises. Out of those 703 cases, 20 of them involved actual or intended manufacture or conversion of weapons or ammunition.
In one case, a man was jailed for 11 years after officers found 26 firearms at his home - some were even stored in his three-year-old's bedroom. Raymond Nugent, 73, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in January this year after being found guilty of 44 firearms offences.
