Pistols, P equipment found in raid

Police found two loaded pistols and materials to make the drug P during a raid in rural Auckland involving the armed offenders squad and a bomb squad team yesterday.

Officers found the items when they raided a property on the Awhitu Peninsula, north of Waiuku on the Manukau Harbour, at 6am.

A man in his late 40s was charged with unlawful possession of two firearms and ammunition and possession of precursor materials and equipment for the manufacture of P.