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 three-year-old boy found a loaded handgun in his garden in Smethwick, West Midlands, and then his 11-year-old brother fired it at a car. The boys' mother said the people who had dumped the gun in her flat's garden were "evil and selfish".
2008/3/10
Sheffield Telegraph Community March to Remember Victims
Community March in Burngrave to remember gun victims including Ibrahim Ilyas, Younis Khan, Jonathan Matondo.
2008/3/9
inthenews
An 18-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of threats to kill after an incident in Shipham, Somerset. Police negotiators and firearm units were deployed after officers were alerted with reports that a man in a house could harm himself. An air weapon was recovered from the property.
2008/3/9
BBC
A youth, aged 17, has been arrested and charged after brandishing a cigarette lighter shaped like a handgun at a burger bar in Southend. He was charged with possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear or harassment.
2008/3/9
BBC
A man has been charged with three counts of attempted murder of police officers and possession of a firearm following an incident in which shots were fired at four officers who had approached two men in Manor House, north London. No one was injured.
2008/3/8
Lancashire Evening Post
A pizza delivery driver was ambushed and robbed at gunpoint by three men in Preston. The robbers escaped on foot with cash, jewellery and credit cards.
2008/3/8
Crawley Observer
A 15-year-old was robbed at gunpoint in a park in Portsmouth whilst walking home with his girlfriend. Three men prodded him with a black handgun and demanded cash.
2008/3/8
Scotsman
A parking warden was shot with an air rifle in Edinburgh's New Town. He was ticketing cars when he was hit on the hand by a pellet.
2008/3/8
South Wales Echo
A gunman threatened to shoot and kill a takeaway delivery driver during an attack in St Mellons, Cardiff. Three men were involved, one armed with what the driver described as a nine-inch long black pistol and another with a lock-knife. The men stole a mobile phone, wallet, bank cards and satellite navigation system.
2008/3/8
Bolton News
A show horse has been shot with an airgun in his stables in Radcliffe. He will be left with a scar after having had a pellet removed from his face. The horse is the latest victim in a string of airgun attacks on animals in Bolton.
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