Chaotic criminals are using "battlefield weaponry" on the streets of Merseyside and the last three times it's been fired three people have died.
Senior Merseyside Police officers told the ECHO a new type of weapon which can discharge 15 rounds in less than a second is being used to carry out organised hits. The Czech-manufactured Skorpion machine pistol, capable of discharging 850 rounds in a minute, first appeared on UK soil in about 2021.
Before then the weapon of choice for organised crime groups throughout the UK and in Merseyside was handguns. But now the Skorpion, described by assistant chief constable Mark Kameen as "military weaponry", has been used in three shootings in Merseyside in recent months - and each time it has been discharged people have died.
