A UK court on Tuesday continued to hold an enquiry into the events that led to the death of Mark Duggan and the subsequent London riots last year.
Snaresbrook court heard that Mr. Duggan, a Jamaican had picked up a handgun 15 minutes before he was shot dead by armed police.
The fatal shooting in Tottenham, north London, sparked disorder across the capital which spread to other cities.
Thirty year-old Kevin Hutchinson-Foster is accused of selling or transferring a prohibited firearm to 29 year-old Duggan between July 28 and August 5, 2011.
Mr. Hutchinson-Foster, who is of no fixed address, has denied passing the BBM Bruni Model 92 handgun to Mr. Duggan.
Prosecutor Edward Brown told the court that on August 4 last year a handgun was recovered in Ferry Lane in Tottenham.
He said that evidence showed that the loaded gun had been passed to Mark Duggan by Hutchinson-Foster, shortly before the minicab in which Duggan was travelling had been stopped by police in Ferry Lane where he was killed.
The jury is set to hear mobile phone evidence, from the minicab driver who saw the handover, and evidence from an earlier incident just six days before, when Mr. Hutchinson-Foster was allegedly seen using the same gun to threaten and beat another man.