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 was threatened with a shotgun during a carjacking in Norris Green, Liverpool. He was driving a van when a man flagged him down and then threatened him. Five men surrounded the driver's side and attacked him. The victim suffered minor injuries.
2008/9/12
Newbry Today
A loaded gun and more than £40,000 in cash was found by police in a raid on an illegal waste operator in Aldermaston, Berkshire. Four men were arrested, two of whom have been charged with firearms offences.
2008/9/12
BBC
Two men armed with a small handgun stole cash boxes after threatening a security guard at a shop in Rusthall, Kent. No-one was injured.
2008/9/11
Skegness Standard
A cat had to be put down after it was shot with an air rifle in Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire. The pet was found by its owner with a severe injury to its back and a pellet was lodged in the spine.
2008/9/11
Scotsman
A young mother and her baby were sitting next the window of a bus when it came under suspected gunfire in Edinburgh. The window was shattered by what she believes was an airgun pellet. Other passengers reported seeing one or two people running away.
2008/9/11
BBC
Two self-loading pistols were recovered from a property in Moss Side, Manchester, when police executed a search warrant. Two women and a man were arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm.
2008/9/11
BBC
A man was arrested under the Firearms Act after a three-hour siege in Liskeard, Cornwall. Police were called after reports of a man with a knife and a handgun threatening to harm himself.
2008/9/11
Gazette
Jonathan Ewing, who fired an airgun at two brothers in Colchester, Essex, in August 2007, has been jailed for six years. One victim was shot at 34 times and still has pellets in his head. His younger brother who was aged 13 was also shot in the head, and both victims were pistol-whipped. Ewing had gone to their house to collect a debt which was nothing to do with the brothers and had been taking a cocktail of drugs and alcohol.
2008/9/10
Press & Journal
A child was shot in the neck by an airgun pellet as he took part in a Stonehaven school's sponsored walk. A fifth-year pupil caught carrying the weapon was immediately apprehended by staff and is now suspended from the school. The injured pupil was treated by a member of staff.
2008/9/10
This is South Devon
A window of a cafe on Paignton Pier has been peppered with seven shots, possibly from a ball bearing gun.
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