Gun Incidents

The Infer Trust makes every effort to record and categorise the firearms incidents reported in the UK but we recognise that it is not a complete record.

If you are aware of a gun incident which is not listed please notify us.  You can do this by either sending us the link for an on line report, or a hard copy of a press article to our address. 
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2024/3/24 Portsmouth News

Police officers responded following reports of man seen with a gun in Southsea, Hampshire. Four men were arrested at the scene on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

2024/3/24 Daily Gazette Essex County Standard

Police officers tasered a man who crashed his car into a wall in Colchester, Essex while being pursued by police officers. Click on media link to read full report.

2024/3/23 Echo

Warren Williams, aged 20, has been jailed for eight years and two months after pleading guilty to Section 18 wounding and possession of a firearm. In November 2022, Williams shot a man in the leg in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. The victim, who sustained serious injuries, refused to cooperate with police. He has since been jailed for affray and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place in connection with an incident on the day of the shooting. Williams’ co-defendant, 23-year-old Cole Kelly, was jailed for three years and four months for assisting an offender.

2024/3/23 The Bolton News

A man has been shot in Bolton, Greater Manchester. His injuries are not believed to be serious. No arrests have yet been reported.

2024/3/23 BirminghamLive

A man allegedly threatened a delivery driver in Birmingham, West Midlands with what looked like a handgun before stealing a parcel. Armed police officers responded and a suspected firearm was found in a nearby garden. No arrests have yet been made.

2024/3/23 Daily Record

It has emerged that a man, who armed himself with two axes and smashed the door of a holiday property near Barmouth, North Wales in August 2023, was tasered and arrested by responding police officers. Click on media link to read full report.

2024/3/23 Northamptonshire Telegraph

Liam McKinnon, aged 37, has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to four separate charges, one of which related to an “unprovoked and serious” incident in Corby, Northamptonshire in January 2024, after which McKinnon was found with an imitation firearm, a large machete and a hunting knife.

2024/3/23 SomersetLive

Police officers responded to reports that a firearm had been seen during an argument between people known to each other in Southwick, Wiltshire. A man was subsequently arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

2024/3/23 stv News

After police officers seized a firearm, drugs and £65,000 cash from a property in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, a man and a woman were arrested in connection with the finds. Click on media link to read full report.

2024/3/22 Yorkshire Evening Post

After police officers responded to reports of a collision between two cars and a man being assaulted by a group of males in Leeds, West Yorkshire, they discovered one of the vehicles had suffered damage consistent with a firearms discharge. The injured man was treated in hospital after being found at the scene with non-life-threatening stab wounds. One man has since been arrested in connection with the attack.

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