Razor gangs were criminal gangs who dominated the Sydney crime scene in the 1920s. After the passage of the Pistol Licensing Act 1927, the Parliament of New South Wales imposed severe penalties for carrying concealed firearms and handguns.

The Glasgow razor gangs were violent gangs that existed in the East End and South Side of Glasgow, Scotland in the late 1920s and 1930s and were named after their weapon of choice. H. Kingsley Long's novel No Mean City (1935) contains a fictionalised account of these gangs.

2015年8月22日 · Involving regular battles between four groups, the razor gang wars were essentially a struggle for the cocaine traffic. Although its origins were never satisfactorily explained, it is significant that the start of the killings in mid-1927 coincided with police pressure on the cocaine trade.

They were called razor gangs because of the cut throat razor (a straight shaving blade) that was the weapon of choice, especially after the Pistol Licensing Act of 1927 meant automatic gaol time for anyone caught carrying an unlicensed firearm. The razor gangs at the heart of these wars were led by Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh.

2022年11月3日 · The years of 1927 to 1930 saw the worst mob wars in Australian history. Nothing before or since has approached them for ferocity. Gang leaders Kate Leigh, Tilly Devine, Norman Bruhn and Phil ‘The Jew’ Jeffs battled it out in East Sydney, with a wide range of fascinating side characters who called this part of Sydney home.

2011年11月20日 · Norman Bruhn: A particularly violent Melbourne criminal who had come to Sydney in 1927 and headed up a razor gang to extort money from other criminals, usually cocaine dealers or robbers. Bruhn was shot dead in Charlotte Lane, Darlinghurst late in 1927.

Kings Cross, Paddington, Darlinghurst, Surry Hills and Woolloomooloo were sprawling slums of unsanitary, ramshackle Victorian terraces and makeshift shacks teeming with criminals, drunks and drug addicts, and those too desperately poor to escape via the new transport networks to the city’s burgeoning outer garden suburbs like Strathfield, Chatsw...

2021年12月5日 · a violent street gang armed with razors—in extended use, a group or body responsible for making cutbacks—in particular: 1) (British English, railway slang): a team of investigators seeking ways of improving economy and productivity; 2) (Australian English) a parliamentary committee charged with investigating and reducing government spending

The razor gang era in Sydney stretched from 1927 to 1932. Without doubt it was the most vicious period that city has ever known. Hospital casualty wards were regularly called on to treat people suffering from razor wounds to the face - usually extending in an 'L' shape from the ear, down the cheek and across the mouth.

Vicious gang wars between competing groups in Darlinghurst, Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo battling for control of the criminal underworld. So called because of the cut throat razor (a straight shaving blade) that was the weapon of choice, especially after the Pistol Licensing Act of 1927 meant automatic gaol time for anyone caught carrying an ...