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Sometimes dubbed the "gunshine state", Florida was one of about 30 states where, until 2024, private, unlicensed sellers could sell firearms, for example at gun shows and online, without doing background checks.

The council said it had prosecuted seven people for 21 separate offences since September last year, and that it "regularly seized equipment from unlicensed buskers, including in and around Leicester Square".

Some are licensed by the authorities but around half are unlicensed and therefore illegal, he said.

But after years of bare-minimum patch jobs done by what they contend were unlicensed contractors, the home was verging on uninhabitable.

The DOJ also accused the Lithuanian national of violating sanctions and operating an "unlicensed money transmitting business".