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 cashier at a garage in Melton, Suffolk, has spoken as police hunted for a robber who burst into petrol station and seized £350 in notes. He said the robber had lifted his jumper to show a gun, believed to be a silver revolver with a wooden handle.
2008/3/17
BBC
Three teenagers have been charged in connection with an armed robbery on a store in St Ann's, Nottingham. The youths, two aged 14 and one 15, were charged with armed robbery and possession of an imitation firearm.
2008/3/17
BBC
Three masked men armed with a handgun robbed a convenience store in Shenstone, near Lichfield in Staffordshire. They stole a small quantity of cash from the till before leaving.
2008/3/17
BBC
Three men have been arrested after an incident in which a window was broken and a gun fired at flats in Derby. It is unclear what type of gun was used.
2008/3/17
BBC
A man has been shot and killed in the Newtown area of Birmingham. The man was found by police officers and was taken to hospital but subsequently died. It is believed that he was shot as he fled along an alleyway after being attacked as he drove through area (Birmingham Mail, 21 March 2008).
2008/3/17
BBC
A man was shot on a bus in Streatham, south London. He was taken to a hospital where his condition was described as stable.
2008/3/17
BBC
Police are investigating after a rare peregrine falcon was shot and injured in St Lawrence, near Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. The bird was discovered with a gun shot wound to its back in the garden of a house. A vet found an airgun pellet still lodged in its body as well as signs of earlier shotgun wounds that had healed.
2008/3/16
Sunday Mercury
Simon Charity, 20, fired pellets from an air rifle from his bedroom window in Sneinton, Nottingham, and hit a pregnant woman and an 11-year-old boy. He has been sentenced to four years in youth custody.
2008/3/15
Telegraph & Argus
Two teenage boys who robbed a group of friends of their mobile phones in Queensbury, Bradford, in December 2007 have been sentenced to two-and-a-half years and two years in custody. During the robbery the 14-year-old pulled out a knife and the 17-year-old produced a handgun, later suggested to be a ball-bearing gun. The younger boy also admitted another robbery in which a sword or large knife was used.
2008/3/15
The Sentinel
A 14-year-old who was shot with an air rifle between the eyebrows by another teenager was very lucky not to be blinded. The pellet had to be removed in hospital. Jacob Sinclair, 18, from Chesterton, Staffordshire, had aimed the rifle at the boy as he was walking down a footpath. Sinclair had pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He will be sentenced at a later date.
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