Buxton man found with guns and weapons jailed
25 firearms and almost 50 rounds of ammunition and homemade weapons were discovered in his mother's house
Last updated 28th Sep 2021
21 year old Aaron Melville of Walker Brow was arrested on December 1st last year after officers raided an address and found and seized a number of items including several homemade weapons, a revolver which was examined and found to be modified, a dismantled handgun, rounds of ammunition in the process of being converted from blank firing to illegal ammunition, and a number of tools.
Officers also found a delivery note that showed Melville had ordered three Retay blank firing pistol replicas on September 11th 2020.
Detectives later discovered that Melville had ordered 25 firearms - two of which were found in the address by officers - and another one that had been found converted in January 2020 with his DNA on.
He was sentenced for 5 years and 7 months at Manchester Crown Square on Tuesday September 28th after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Detective Constable Christopher Chinnery, from Greater Manchester Police's Serious and Organised Crime Group, said: "Melville had a clear set-up and a keen interest in firearms, which could have led to some devastating consequences.
"A lot of the work we're doing to tackle firearms aren't always visible but the raid on Melville's home is an example of us acting on intelligence and taking another dangerous criminal off the streets.
"Converting Retay guns into live-firing lethal firearms is a national issue and one we're absolutely committed to tackling and Melville is one of many we're bringing to justice for it."