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.
A
man pointed a handgun at a shop assistant before escaping with cash at a
convenience store in Stockport, Greater Manchester.
2014/8/21
Birmingham Mail
Marvin
Forbes, 25, was sentenced to 12 m
onths
in jail for possession of a stun gun. He was arrested in A
ston, West Midlands when he was
suspected of being the getaway driver for a burglary. During his arrest he was
found to be in possession of a stun gun disguised as a mobile phone.
2014/8/19
Watford Observer
A cat was shot twice with an air rifle and beheaded in the
garden of its family home in Watford, Hertfordshire. No-one has been arrested
in connection with the incident.
2014/8/19
Croydon Advertiser
Tyrone Thomas, 28,a drug
dealer was jailed fornine years after pleading guilty to three counts
possession of firearms with intent to enable another person to endanger life,
as well as one count of possession of ammunition with intent to enable another
person to endanger life.
He had stored: Beretta that was loaded with seven live rounds; a Browning with five live rounds; a colt revolver with three of its six
chambers loaded with live ammunition in one of his drug customer’s loft in
Croyden, South London.
2014/8/19
Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express
Police officers were called out to Knottingly, West
Yorkshire after reports of someone walking in the street with a firearm. It was
found later to be a 12 year old boy with a BB gun.
2014/8/19
London Evening Standard
During
raids
across London before the Notting Hill carnival police
recovered what
they believed to be two machine guns, a Mac-10,
a Sten gun, and another handgun, plus ammunition.
2014/8/19
Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express
Police officers were called out to Knottingly, West
Yorkshire after reports of someone walking in the street with a firearm. It was
found later to be a 12 year old boy with a BB gun.
2014/8/19
BBC News
Two men have
been arrested for attempted murder after a man was shot multiple times in his
garden in Wingate, Peterlee, County Durham.
2014/8/19
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
A pensioner,
with learning difficulties, threatened to use a shotgun on staff at a council
call centre. The pensioner from Almondbury, Kirklees, West Yorkshire,
was
given 12 month community order with a 30 day activity programme.
2014/8/19
Edinburgh Evening News
A 38 year old
ex plumber has been arrested for making his own guns allegedly from metal he claimed
to have found in the streets. When he was arrested police also found
shotgun pellets embedded in a door
in his flat in
New Town in Edinburgh, Lothian.
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