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.
Ricky Connon from Broughton, Flintshire, has admitted possessing a firearm with intent to cause people to believe that unlawful violence would be used against them. He fired an airgun out of his window when children hurled missiles at his flat in March 2009. He was given a suspended 40 week jail sentence and made subject of a two year supervision order.
2009/5/7
Chad (Mansfield)
Two cats needed treatment at a vets after they were shot with an air rifle in Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire. These incidents follow four others reported to the police this years which resulted in the death of one cat, another having to have its eye removed and injuries to the other two. All of the cats were shot with a .22 air rifle.
2009/5/7
Littlehampton Gazette
Police investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a car in Horley, Surrey, have confirmed that a firearm was involved. The death is not being treated as suspicious.
2009/5/7
Local Guardian
An air rifle was among weapons seized by police in an operation which saw nine people arrested as school pupils and passengers at stations in Wimbledon and Morden, south London, were searched.
2009/5/7
Lowestoft Journal
Matthew Sleightholme was arrested after firing a pellet from an air rifle in a car park in Halesworth, Suffolk. He bought the weapon on an internet auction site before shooting it at a tree in a park as children played nearby in April 2009. He was fined £100 and ordered to pay costs, and magistrates ordered the destruction of the gun.
2009/5/7
BBC
Two men were arrested in Frampton, Dorset, after reports a man was threatened in an incident involving firearms. No shots were fired but firearms were recovered. One of the men holds a current firearm certificate.
2009/5/7
Skegness Standard
An air pistol, air pellets and telescopic sights were stolen from an unlocked garage in Skegness, Lincolnshire.
2009/5/6
BBC
A WPC was among seven people arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods following a series of raids in south-east London in which items including a stun gun, police radio and suspected controlled drugs were seized.
2009/5/6
Coventry Telegraph
A 16-year-old boy was shot in the face when an airgun went off. He was examining the revolver-type weapon with a friend at an address in Bulkington, Warwickshire, when the gun went off. The victim was hit in the chin. Police have issued a warning about the dangers of playing with guns.
2009/5/6
Free Press
A cat was shot in the face by an air rifle in Pontypool, South Wales, and may have lost the sight in one eye. The pellet narrowly missed his eyeball and hit the corner of the eye socket, then went through the top of his nose and into his palate.
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