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Australian bikies’deadly  new weapons 
REPORT: STEPHEN DRILL
you see on battlefields and now, with help from the AN0M app sting, police are seizing rifles off Aussie bikies used by Islamic State
It's the stuff
Stephen Drill
NewsCorp journalist
Among the cache of weapons seized by authorities are
Silencers
The number of illegal guns confiscated from bikies doubled in a year, latest figures reveal.
3D printed submachine guns
homemade handguns
The crackdown comes amid a spate of shootings across the country, including the attack at a Sydney gym on Comanchero boss Tarek Zahed and his brother Omar, where 20 shots were fired in 20 seconds from a modified pistol.
Detective Superintendent Jason McArthur, of the AFP’s National Anti-Gangs Squad, said he was concerned about the guns that were in the hands of bikies.
        Deadly firepower
Det Supt Jason McArthur   
AFP’s National Anti-Gangs Squad
Police have stepped up their efforts to remove guns from bikies, with intelligence from the AN0M app sting helping them find hidden stashes of weapons. More than 12,000 criminals were on the app as they thought it was encrypted.
       Sting in the tail
The ANOM app was secretly monitored by Australian Federal Police and the FBI.Intercepted messages revealed how bikies plotted to attack each other, which police said debunked the myth of the “bikie brotherhood”.
Det Supt McArthur revealed new details of how a plot to shoot up a suburban cafe, with a gunman planning to fire from the back of a motorcycle, was foiled. He said the plot carried serious risk to the public.
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Det Supt McArthurAFP’s National Anti-Gangs Squad
I can’t overstate the significance of a fully automatic military grade assault rifle in the hands of an OMCG member.We’re talking about a weapon that... you pull the trigger and 30 rounds a second (heads) towards unsuspecting people... They just wanted to make a statement.
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