North West Metro Regional Crime Squad detectives have charged a man with 14 offences and seized more than a dozen firearms following a thorough investigation to get guns off our streets.
Detectives executed search warrants earlier this morning at addresses on Ford Avenue in Sunshine North, Whitesides Avenue in Sunshine West and at a business on Ashley Street in Braybrook.
Investigators seized six firearms at the Sunshine North address as well as other items including:
• two loaded .22 calibre handguns
• an unloaded .22 calibre handgun
• a Category E handgun
• two adapted / homemade firearms
• two suppressors / silencers
• knuckledusters
• partially assembled firearms and firearms parts
• items associated with the manufacture of firearms
A 30-year-old man was arrested at the Sunshine West address.
He was charged with 14 firearms offences including possession of a traffickable quantity of firearms, non-prohibited person possess a handgun without licence and manufacture firearm.
He will appear before the Melbourne Magistrates' Court today.
Quotes attributable to North West Metro Regional Crime Detective Senior Sergeant Haydn Beale:
"Illicit firearms have absolutely no place in our community".
"We will continue to work tirelessly to remove firearms from the wrong hands, take them off our streets and make them as difficult as possible to access and use".
