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.
Bingo hall staff were held at gunpoint during an attempted robbery in Feltham, west London. Three men armed with a pistol demanded money before carrying out a search behind the till but left empty-handed.
2008/3/15
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Two members of a gang of five drug dealers were give custodial sentences for robbery and attempted robbery following two armed raids at shops in the Newsome area of Huddersfield. Marcus Osbourne, 19, and an unnamed 17-year-old took part in the robbery when armed with an imitation gun in July 2007. Osbourne, who pleaded guilty to a number of drug offences admitted robbery, attempted robbery and possessing an imitation firearm. He was given three years in a young offenders' institute for the drug offences and four years for the other offences. The other teenager received four years detention and a further two years for drug offences.
2008/3/15
BBC
A teenager who was found in Brixton, south London, with gunshot wounds has died in hospital. The 19-year-old was found in a street after police and ambulance were called. Police have arrested two males, aged 16 and 17, in connection with the murder (Press Association, 21 March 2008).
2008/3/15
BBC
A man died after being shot in a pub in Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton. The victim was taken to hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The murder followed an argument at another pub about an hour earlier (Birmingham Mail, 17 March 2008).
2008/3/15
South Wales Echo
A kitten died after being shot "just for the thrill of it" according to his owners. The kitten suffered an air rifle wound when he was shot in fields near their home in St Brides Wentlodge, Gwent.
2008/3/15
Express & Star
A pet cat has been shot at point blank range with an air rifle in an attack in Bilbrook, Wolverhampton. A metal pellet lodged just an inch away from her spine.
2008/3/14
Willesden & Brent Times
Two men have been arrested after police seized drugs, four replica guns, one ball-bearing gun, an air rifle and a number of other weapons during a dawn raid on a travellers' site in Neasden, north west London.
2008/3/14
Herald Express
An air rifle sniper shot two people, one a nine-year-old boy the other a woman, outside a leisure centre in Newton Abbot, Devon. The woman, a care support worker was shot as she helped students with learning difficulties into a waiting car. The boy was waiting to cross the road when he suffered what he described to police as a 'really bad sting' to his left upper arm. A third person later revealed that she too had fallen victim to a similar attack when she was hit in the back outside the leisure centre in December 2007 (Herald Express, 18 March 2008).
2008/3/14
Crawley Observer
Police officers seized an air rifle from four men seen carrying the weapon in woods in Tovil, Kent. Two of the men were given a summons to court for possession of a firearm. In another incident in Kent a man had his air rifle confiscated and destroyed after being spotted shooting birds in Gillingham. He was firing the gun near a children's play area.
2008/3/14
BBC
Two men, one carrying a firearm threatened staff at a travel agents in Consett, County Durham. They made off with an amount of currency.
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