Counter-terrorism officers in the West Midlands and MI5 ran one of the largest undercoveroperations in recent years to identity the plotters and stop them.
The women came into contact with five undercover officers who carried fake passports and other identity papers and were involved in various undercoveroperations between 1987 and 2010.
Twenty-three operators, representing more than 80 percent of the shows across the state, will abide by the "Model Gun Show Procedures" developed after undercoveroperations in 2011 showed buyers could obtain weapons without going through required background checks, Schneiderman said.
He had, in particular, made a career of denouncing U.S. intelligence -- accusing it of systematic criminal and anti-constitutional behavior, encouraging moves to hamstring or dismantle its operations and defending those who deliberately exposed American agents operating undercover.
He called for a public inquiry to look at all the issues surrounding covert operations such as lying in court and said that for a period of time, undercover policing was "largely out of control".