Oluwatobi Sunmonu, 26, bought bonafide antique guns online using a legal loophole and manufactured homemade ammunition to turn them into lethal weapons.
And Sunmonu - who claimed to be a qualified accountant - took inspiration from mafia boss Don Corleone, from the Godfather.
Detectives found a book belonging to Sunmonu titled 'The Supreme Team', which detailed the rise of an organised crime syndicate in New York in the 1980s.
The literature was found after officers searched a room at the Queens Hotel in Bayswater, London.
Sunmonu and his girlfriend, Toni Ferry, helped pay for the room which they rented for a year and five months to store drugs, guns and ammunition.
Ferry and co-conspirator Iyisha Levine played a key part in Sunmonu's drug enterprise.
They would stay in hotel suites for days at a time, preparing and packaging large quantities of Class A drugs ready for distribution.
When police raided a hotel room they found four £1,900 Louis Vuitton holdalls containing six guns, a silencer, £152,000 of heroin and cocaine and a fake driving licence in the name of Thomas Corleoni.
Detectives from the Met's Trident gangs team also discovered pictures of Tony Soprano on Sunmonu's laptop and references to US gangster John Gotti.
Detectives uncovered an Organised Criminal Network (OCN) divided into two areas of business - the supply of firearms and ammunition and the supply of Class A drugs.
Sunmonu oversaw the criminality and would purchase firearms and ammunition before distributing them to gangs in a wider criminal network.
Summonu was described as a Svengali-type character, who preyed on young girls to exploit by making them store drugs and guns before he distributed them to gangs.
Officers also discovered a number of firearms had been purchased and delivered to Ferry's home address in Islington.
Sunmonu, 26, of Woolwich and Ferry, 23, of Islington, were both charged with:
.Seven counts of conspiracy to enable others to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life
.One count of conspiracy to enable others to possess ammunition with intent to endanger life
.Two counts of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply (cocaine and heroin)
Iyisha Levine, 29, of Notting Hill, was charged with two counts of conspiracy to possess Class A drugs with intent to supply.
Sunmonu pleaded guilty to all offences last November but Ferry and Levine denied the charges.
But they were convicted following a two-week-long trial at Harrow Crown Court and were sentenced on Monday 16 April to 13 years and five years imprisonment respectively.
Sunmonu was also jailed.
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