gangland

In Northern Ireland, a Somali national was arrested at asylum accommodation in Belfast on behalf of Danish authorities on suspicion of a "gangland murder" in Denmark in 2022.

Mr Findlay has written books on gangland crime and was the victim of an acid attack in 2015, when an assailant appeared at his door disguised as a postman.

Congress first restricted machine guns in 1934 in response to the gangland murders during Prohibition, including the Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago.

In 2013, he was convicted in a string of 11 killings and dozens of other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant.

Like the cops, crooks and gangland toughs who populate his books, Don Winslow has something of a street fighter’s mentality.