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.
Staff at a Sunderland post office were threatened with a handgun when three men demanded money. The gun was not discharged but the men fled with a large sum of money.
2008/3/19
This is Hertfordshire
A goose had to be put done after it was shot with an air rifle at Stanborough Lakes, Welwyn Garden City. The bird was rescued from the water by an RSPCA inspector. An hour long operation revealed that the pellet had shattered the ear canal and the goose would not recover. The RSPCA is caring for another goose which may also have been shot with an air rifle.
2008/3/19
Sunderland Echo
Two pet cats were lucky to survive after they were both shot with an air rifle in South Hylton. Their owner said that his neighbourhood has been repeatedly targeted by thugs with airguns. He has now alerted the police and other residents to the problem in a bid to put a stop to it.
2008/3/18
Kent Online
A driver who was driving along a street in Yalding had a large handgun pointed in his face by the driver of another vehicle, thought to be aged around 18. The man had pulled over to let the other car.
2008/3/18
ic South London
A 14-year-old schoolboy has confessed to shooting a man in the back but claims he panicked in fear for his life. He believed he had been threatened by the victim, whom the boy and his friends had robbed of his mobile phone a few months earlier. The man was shot in Peckham in October 2007. The boy has denied being given the gun by a 17-year-old and both teenagers deny attempted murder, wounding with intent and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. The trial continues.
2008/3/18
BBC
Two shotguns and more than 100 cartridges have been stolen from a house in Meols, Wirral. Both firearms had been lawfully held in a secure cabinet in the premises.
2008/3/18
BBC
A coroner has ruled that Garry Weddell (Police Officer) unlawfully killed his wife and her mother, before taking his own life. Weddell, who had been accused of murdering his wife in January 2007, shot his mother-in-law at her home in Gustard Wood, Hertfordshire, in January 2008 before shooting himself in the grounds of a shooting club in Markyate (see Incidents). The shotgun he used to kill his mother-in-law and himself had been stolen from the club after he had undertaken clay pigeon shooting lessons. The coroner said he might write to the government with observations on the safeguards controlling weapons held by gun clubs after reviewing the case.
2008/3/18
Daily Record
A gunman shot out windows in three houses and a church with an airgun in Alloa and Tullibody in Clackmannanshire.
2008/3/17
This is Wiltshire
Karol Hanicki aimed an antique shotgun at police called to a domestic incident in Coleview. He pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. He also admitted an offence of actual bodily harm on his wife and common assault on his son.
2008/3/17
Lancashire Telegraph
Adrian Bird admitted his part in a street melee in Bacup in which a girl was hit by a pellet from an air pistol. He admitted affray and possessing a firearm when prohibited. He was given six months in jail, suspended for 12 months, with supervision and 200 hours unpaid work.
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