Editing Paul Edmunds (section)

==Investigation==
in 2009 investigators at the National Ballistics Intelligence Service noticed an increase in vintage weapons and handmade ammo linked to criminal gangs.<ref name=guard/> Each round of ammunition had a unique 'fingerprint' left by the four different tools needed to create it, proving a single point of supply for all the bullets.<ref name=guard/> This was proved by examining the bullets with a microscope.<ref name=lmerc/> Police and NBIS launched Operation Gold Dust to track down the culprits.<ref name=metro/>

Police, noting the guns and ammo came mostly from the West Midlands area of England, rounded up Burger Bar gangsters and 16 were found guilty, but this operation also sent officers in the direction of Edmunds and Surdhar.<ref name=guard/> Edmunds was first identified when police raiding Surdhur's home found an invoice from Edmunds.<ref name=metro/> Police raided his home in Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, England.<ref name=bbc>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42430298 Rogue firearms dealer Paul Edmunds jailed for selling weapons] - BBC News</ref> Edmunds filed down a tool involved in the bullet-making in order to destroy evidence when he realised the police were on to him.<ref name=sky/> He told police when interviewed he "didn’t give a shit" about gun crime victims, he was "not responsible for the actions of somebody that buys some thing", and his only obligation was to avoid selling to anyone that "didn’t look right".<ref name=guard/>

His garage contained 100,000 live rounds of ammunition.<ref name=bbc/> Police found his armouries where weapons were stored and ammunition manufactured: One each in his garage, bedroom, and attic.<ref name=metro/> They also found a register kept by Edmunds filled with false entries to cover his crimes, and documents detailing everything he needed to manufacture various obscure callibres for vintage guns.<ref name=metro/>