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 19-year-old man was arrested for firing an airgun at a neighbour's window in Ipswich. Two shots were fired at a kitchen window. No-one was hurt.
2008/3/22
BBC
A police sergeant from Downham Market, Norfolk, has pleaded not guilty to charges of harassment, possessing a knife in a public place and entered no plea to further charges including possession of firearm ammunition without a certificate.
2008/3/22
BBC
Two people, a woman and a man, were injured when two masked gunmen fired shots into a pub in Salford. Both victims were taken to hospital, the woman with a gunshot wound to her ankle and the man with an injury to his thigh. Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
2008/3/22
BBC
A man thought to be wearing a burka threatened a security driver outside a supermarket in Birmingham with what was believed to be a firearm wrapped in a black plastic bag. The driver managed to get back into his van and shut the sliding door trapping the weapon in the door for a few seconds. A second robbery at a jewellers in Smethwick, where an armed robber in a burka was joined by four other men may be linked to the earlier incident.
2008/3/22
BBC
A teenager has been shot during an incident in a flat in Baguley, Manchester. The victim was due to undergo surgery.
2008/3/22
BBC
Police are investigating the death a man who was shot in the head in Blyth, Northumberland. He was found above a takeaway along with a seriously injured woman. Police recovered a firearm from the scene which they think was involved in the killing. Two men have been arrested and bailed, a third remains in custody. A man has now been charged with murder. The injured woman remains in a critical condition (BBC, 24 March 2008).
2008/3/22
Guardian
The British Deer Society are launching an anti-poaching campaign and will press the Association of Chief Police Officers to provide greater resources for what it describes as "gun crime" in the countryside. As many as 50,000 deer are killed every year by night-time poachers and illegal bloodsports fanatics. Shotguns, .22 rifles and crossbows are all being used. Shooting deer at night is a crime.
2008/3/21
Watford Observer
Police are asking for help in catching the perpetrator of an air pistol incident in Watford which occurred earlier in the month. A member of the public was threatened with the gun, and police suspect that the man responsible may have been involved in other incidents that day. The gun was later recovered.
2008/3/21
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Two men have been charged with possessing a shotgun without holding a licence in Huddersfield in March 2007. One of the men, aged 19, is also charged with drug offences and possessing a weapon which would be likely to discharge liquid gas and to receiving a car knowing or believing it to be stolen. The case against the two men was adjourned until April.
2008/3/20
Shropshire Star
A man has been charged with possessing an air rifle in public after a drinker in a pub in Ironbridge was shot in the head. The shot was fired from a passing car.
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