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.
Police are investigating a shooting incident at the back of a nightclub in Glasgow where a gun was fired. No-one was injured. A man has been detained in police custody (BBC, 2 April 2008).
2008/3/31
The Sentinel
A family's pet cat is recovering after an operation to remove an airgun pellet. She was shot in the spine in Cheadle, Staffordshire, in February 2008.
2008/3/30
Sunday Mail
A man who was deported from Australia for threatening to kill a policeman has been arrested on an airgun charge after a raid on a hostel in Inverness.
2008/3/30
Spalding Guardian
A cat died shortly after being found by her owner lying injured in his shed in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. She had been shot in the stomach with an air rifle and died because of severe internal bleeding.
2008/3/28
Sheffield Telegraph
Samuel Sorsby, 20, turned up outside the High Green home of a 14-year-old girl he had dated for just a week or two armed with an air rifle and a sword. He was drunk and threatened to slit her throat and burn her house down. He was tackled by neighbours. He pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. He was given a 12-month sentence in a young offenders' institute.
2008/3/27
West Sussex County Times
A man was arrested and an imitation firearm recovered after police officers boarded and searched a train at East Grinstead railway station. A member of the public had raised the alarm after a passenger was spotted with a handgun. The suspect is a 15-year-old boy (BBC, 27 March 2008).
2008/3/27
Mirror
A fireman was hit in the back with a pellet from an airgun fired in an estate in Hartlepool.
2008/3/27
Liverpool Echo
Andrew Tyrer of Childwall, Liverpool, has pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing a prohibited firearm and a further charge of having ammunition without a licence. He also admitted drugs charges. He was arrested in November 2007 following a targeted gun crime day when officers found two self-loading pistols.
2008/3/27
Bolton News
Police discovered a fully loaded short barrel 9mm semi-automatic Glock handgun when they went to a pub in the centre of Manchester. Four men, one aged 18, were arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
2008/3/27
Birmingham Mail
A teenager has been shot in the leg with an air rifle. The attack took place near a brook in Wombourne, Staffordshire. The victim suffered minor injuries to his calf.
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