Editing Paul Edmunds (section)

===Impact===
The massive gun-running business was linked to 107 crime scenes.<ref name=sky/> His weapons have been linked to an attempt to shootdown a police helicopter during riots in 2011.<ref name=metro/> On Boxing Day 2013 four of Edmunds's illegal handmade bullets were used to murder a man in a London nightclub.<ref name=lmerc/><ref name=bbc2/> Ammunition linked to Edmunds was found in 2015 when Derek Myers was murdered in Birmingham.<ref name=bbc2/> An unfired round from Edmunds was at the scene of March 2016 murder of Kenichi Phillips in Birmingham.<ref name=sky/> More than 1,000 bullets from Edmunds have turned up at crime scenes.<ref name=lmerc/> Edmunds had not registered any guns, making them untraceable.<ref name=metro/>

Edmunds supplied bullets to return vintage French, Russian, and US weapons to use, and imported illegal Colt handguns from the 1950s following trips to Chicago, Las Vegas and Denver.<ref name=guard/> He abused his position as a lawful registered firearms dealer to forge customs documents, allowing him to falsely claim the Colt handguns were obsolete antiques.<ref name=lmerc/><ref name=guard/> He spent £250,000 on his crimes, but stood to make a profit of up to £375,000.<ref name=metro>[http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/05/elderly-antiques-dealer-sold-guns-to-british-gang-leaders-6980636/ Elderly antiques dealer ‘sold guns to British gang leaders’] - Metro</ref>