How crims get their guns - the underworld supplier who sidestepped the law
Benn Bathgate20:08, Jul 21 2021 BENN BATHGATE/Stuff Gordon McRae, pictured via video link during a court appearance, used licenced gun owners to buy firearms which he then sold on to criminals. Just a week after police in Hamilton and Auckland had to face off against armed offenders in two separate incidents that left one dead, the ease with which criminals can obtain deadly weapons has been exposed in a single court document. Across an 8-page summary of facts for Gordon McRae, it details how the Taupō methamphetamine dealer was able to sidestep gun laws to supply firearms to the criminal u...