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Article: Crazed gun runner who turned torches into deadly weapons; DEALER IN DEATHe.
- Article from:
- Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2009
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Byline: BEN ROSSINGTON
A "DEALER in death" who ran a guns factory from the kitchen of his Merseyside home was today starting 20 years behind bars.
David Hampson had the ability to transform innocent-looking objects such as torches and cigarette lighters into deadly, single-bullet firing weapons.
He and four others were snared by a year-long police operation into the selling of illegal guns on the streets of Knowsley.
Police say they sold converted and re-commissioned weapons to criminals for protection in the deadly drugs game.
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