Two men, including a former professional footballer player, have been arrested and charged with the armed robbery of a post office in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and a woman has been charged with possessing criminal property. The masked pair allegedly threatened workers with firearms including a sawn-off shotgun while an infant was on the premises, before escaping with cash. No shots were fired and no one was injured.

A group of young people allegedly shot air-powered BB guns at children in the playground of a primary school in Bristol. Two children were hit with metal pellets but no serious injuries were reported. There were believed to have been other shootings in the area on the same day.

The Independent Police Complaints Commissions has made national recommendations for changes to the gun licensing system in light of the shooting of three women by a man with a history of domestic violence who also shot himself in County Durham in January 2012. The IPCC called for the same rules for shotgun licensing that are applied when firearms certificates are issued. These would include a uniform assessment of suitability and fitness to possess both types of weapons; the carrying out of reviews into suitability during the term of the shotgun licence, and tighter restrictions and better guidance regarding applications where domestic violence is involved.

Scott Kennedy has been jailed for 17 years for manslaughter, attempted robbery and possession of an imitation firearm after a 76-year-old man died after an attempted robbery of his home in Kirby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Kennedy threatened him with a BB gun on the doorstep of his home, and a struggle ensued, after which the victim suffered a ruptured artery and died.

Six drug dealers have been jailed for a total of 72 years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin, and possessing criminal property and a stun gun in London and Kent. The men operated a series of drug factories and bought luxury goods with the profits. They were arrested after raids during which police recovered £5.5 million worth of heroin, a stun gun and drug paraphernalia including two hydraulic presses, food processors, large quantities of cutting agents such as caffeine and paracetamol, and money counting machines.

An inquest into the death of Charlie Booth, 16, has found that he took his own life with a shotgun he had been given as a birthday present at his home in Cobham, Kent. A few hours earlier Booth had been visited at home by police because he had sent sexual text messages to a girl and had been given advice and a reprimand by his parents who confiscated his mobile phone. The teenager went to his bedroom but his parents heard a loud bang and discovered his body with the shotgun he had been bought for his 15th birthday and a note in the pocket of his trousers. Despite his young age, he was a member of his school Combined Cadet Force and a shooter and therefore trusted to handle the weapon responsibly.

Stephen Kay has been jailed for seven years for carrying out a hate campaign against his former college in which he planted a bomb at his home in Heysham, Lancaster. Kay began the attacks after his employer rejected complaints of alleged bullying by the victim. He him sent a package in the post  which contained two mouse traps modified to fire blank .22 cartridges and a note in which he threatened to burn down his house and murder his wife, but they did not activate and the victim did not report the incident. Nine months later he set up an improvised explosive device containing petrol, black powder, lead shot and ball bearings that was tied to the back door with a clothes line, but this did not detonate as intended when the victim's wife opened the door. A letter was also intercepted in which Kay threatened to kill the victim and the victim found a mechanism under his car parked outside his house which created a burn mark. At the time Kay was seeing a psychiatrist for a paranoid desires to kill his colleagues but he was only discovered a decade after the incidents when Kay boasted on social media site Facebook about it being the "10th anniversary of the IED incident". During his arrest police discovered an air rifle with firing power above the legal limit, two CS gas canisters, military memorabilia, replica weapons and a mechanism for spraying intruders with UV powder.

Jordan Davis has been jailed for 18 years after pleading guilty to attempting to kill a man in a car park in Redditch, Worcestershire after a dispute in a nightclub the previous evening. The victim was shot in the arm and had emergency surgery but the bullet could not be removed. Lee Quirk has also been jailed for nine years for assisting Davis by getting rid of the car he drove to the car park, conspiring to supply drugs, and possessing parts of a shotgun.

Dale Cregan has been jailed for life, receiving a whole life sentence, after pleading guilty to the shooting and grenade murders of four people in Greater Manchester. He shot the son of a man he was intending to target while he was playing pool at a pub, and killed his father three months later in a gun and grenade attack on his home in the city. Cregan finally lured two unarmed female officers to a property by making a fake emergency call to police reporting a burglary, and killed them with a pistol and a grenade. Cregan later handed himself in to police, after turning up at the home of a barber the night before and forcing him to trim his hair and beard for the occasion. Luke Livesey and Damian Gorman were also each jailed for a minimum of 33 years after being found guilty of murdering the father and attempting to murder three other people at the pub. Jermaine Ward and Anthony Wilkinson were jailed for a minimum of 33 and 35 years respectively for murdering the son, and Mohammed Imran Ali was jailed for seven years for assisting an offender.

Ian Lewis Paul Martel has been handed an eight-month suspended sentence with supervision and 100 hours of unpaid work, been ordered to pay a £100 statutory charge and complete a thinking skills programme, and had his rifle forfeited for destruction after he fired the unloaded air pistol over the heads of a group of boys outside his home in Oakdale, Caerphilly. He fired the gun after he had engaged in a snowball fight with the young boys, but had became angry when they would not stop throwing snow and ice at the windows of his house.