Guns used in gangland hits are "changing hands" and police believe they can be linked to a series of crimes.
Senior Merseyside Police officers are working on the assumption that weapons aren't being disposed of and could be linked to a number of crimes. Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Mark Kameen told the ECHO the supply network isn't just limited to organised crime groups (OCGs) in Merseyside, with guns changing hands across several regions.
ACC Kameen said: "We have linked weapons to a series of crimes in the past. At any one time we have multiple linked series weapons and we're doing a whole host of work to track them, identify them and build conspiracies about them. We are seeing weapons moving between hands.
