Jeweller Angelos Koots admits to making sub-machine guns at his Seven Hills home and supplying them to bikie groups
A JEWELLERY maker produced sub-machine guns in his suburban home, selling them through an organised crime syndicate for $15,000 each.
Backyard arms trader Angelos Koots admitted making up to 100 of the perfectly constructed MAC 10 machine guns - more commonly seen in war zones and believed to have been used in Sydney gang shootings - at his Seven Hills house.
The guns, sold with two magazines and a silencer, were of such quality that during "Mythbuster" style tests alongside a genuine MAC 10 they fired 600 rounds a minute.
Sydney District Court heard that Koots made the guns for an associate who had links to outlaw motorcycle gangs.
When police raided Koots' house, police found diagrams, blocks of aluminium and steel, steel offcuts and moulds matching the MAC 10 machineguns.
Koots was convicted in relation to four guns after getting an immunity provision for giving evidence against other syndicate members. But under cross-examination by crown prosecutor Gary Corr at a hearing in Penrith District Court,
Koots admitted he'd manufactured up to 100 of the guns.Prosecutors believe at least one of the guns may have been used in a high-profile assassination attempt of an OMCG member, but this never made it into evidence.
Koots pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a nonparole jail term of four years with a maximum term of six years.https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/jeweller-angelos-koots-admits-to-making-submac...