Dramatic footage shows the moment a gun supplier was arrested by armed police who found him converting blank-firing pistols into deadly firearms from his bedroom.<br /><br />Alireza Nowbakht, 50, was detained by police who swooped at his property in Smethwick, West Mids., on December 22 last year.<br /><br />A court heard he operated a weapons factory from his home where he made lethal firearms from blank-firing guns he ordered online.<br /><br />Nowbakht bought the guns from a legitimate supplier and had them delivered to a nearby address, which he would then pick up.<br /><br />He used a makeshift workshop, including machining tools, to convert the guns into viable weapons, live rounds of ammunition and ammunition casings.<br /><br />Officers from the National Crime Agency’s Armed Operations Unit raided his home<br />and also found a stolen VW Tiguan parked outside.
