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.
Hussain, 29, of Ashton, Birmingham, West
Midlands was jailed for five years after admitting possession of disguised
firearms following the discovery of a cache of weapons at his house.
2014/8/18
Daily Post North Wales
Armed police
were called out to a house in Rhyl, North Wales following reports of a person
with a firearm.
No firearm was recovered
and no one was injured.
2014/8/18
Heart FM
Shahzad Mahroof, 28,
and
Bernard Pillay, 41,
were jailed for 15 and 17 years respectively for conspiracy to murder
with a shotgun.
23-year-old Matthew McCafferty
was
convicted of supplying the shotgun. They
staged a car crash and then shot their victim in the leg at Luton,
Bedfordshire.
2014/8/18
The Kent and Sussex Courier
A man and woman
were held at gun point with an air rifle in their home at Tonbridge, Kent. Armed
police were involved in arresting a 2
6 year-old man on
suspicion of making threats to kill, and possessing a firearm with intent to
cause fear of violence.
2014/8/17
Thurrock Gazette
A
take away shop owner had to flee his shop during an armed robbery when a man
threatened him with a handgun demanding the contents of his till in Tilbury,
Essex.
2014/8/17
Yorkshire Post
A
man caused a scare at the VW show at Harewood House, North Yorkshire when he
was seen carrying what is now believed to have been an imitation rifle.
Security staff dealt with the problem.
2014/8/17
Cambridge News
A
cat lost an eye after being shot in the head
with .22 calibre air gun
in
Perry, Cambridgeshire.
2014/8/17
Chronicle Live
David Murrow, 24,of Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, has been
sentenced to 3
years in jail after
bringing back a stun gun disguised as a mobile phone from his holiday in
Bulgaria. He was found guilty of
possessing a
disguised firearm, having an offensive weapon and importing a stun gun.
2014/8/17
Bexhill on Sea Observer
Anton Johnson, 24, a company director has been charged
with possession of an imitation firearm and assault by beating. He is alleged
to be the person seen with a gun outside a newsagent on London Road, Bexhill
, East Sussex.
2014/8/16
Your Thurrock
An
inquest has concluded that a man took his own life after he attempted to kill
his stepson with a pistol at his home in Orsett, Essex.
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