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.
One of three teenagers arrested after a spate of catapult and airgun attacks in Platts Common, South Yorkshire had two dead birds in his pocket. The robin and goldcrest had been shot with an air rifle. The youth said he was going to feed them to his ferret.
2008/2/12
Kent News
A man has pleaded guilty to shooting a seagull with a pellet gun near his home in Margate in August 2007. Christopher Fraser-Nash was fined £100 and ordered to pay £600 in court costs as well as forfeiting the gun and ammunition.
2008/2/12
The Star (Sheffield)
Three teenagers aged 16, 15 and 13 have been arrested after a spate of catapult and airgun attacks which have caused a thousand pounds of damage in the village of Platts Common near Barnsley. The arrests were part of Operation Maximum Impact.
2008/2/12
The News (Portsmouth)
Police arrested two men on suspicion of possessing a firearm after finding a weapon inside a house in Hayling Island. They had gone to the house to investigate an allegation of someone making threats to kill.
2008/2/12
Evening Courier (Halifax)
Three masked men robbed takeaway staff at gunpoint in Rastrick, West Yorkshire. They threatened them before fleeing on foot with cash from the till.
2008/2/12
Daily Mail
Armed police held a man at gunpoint when they mistook his MP3 player for a pistol. He was arrested and put in a police cell. He was listening to music on his way home from work in Stoke-on-Trent. The police had received a report from a member of the public who had seen a man appear to pull a handgun from a jacket pocket.
2008/2/11
Manchester Evening News
A cat has been scarred for life after he was nearly killed in an air rifle attack in Wigan. A pellet had narrowly missed his brain and had brushed past his eye before lodging in his right shoulder. It has been decided not to remove the pellet because surgery would be too dangerous.
2008/2/11
Yorkshire Evening Post
A man has appeared in court after police found illegal weaponry and £18,000 in his car after a police chase in November 2007. When his home in Norwood near Harrogate was searched police found a .22 air rifle and ammunition, an unsecured shotgun, two CS gas cannisters, a flick knife and a knuckle duster. Simon Phillips has admitted purchase of an uncertificated air rifle, possession of live ammunition, failure to comply with the terms of a shotgun certificate, possession of an offensive weapon and having a weapon for discharge of noxious substances. He has been jailed for six months (Yorkshire Post, 29 March 2008).
2008/2/11
The Star (Sheffield)
A shop worker and a delivery driver were held at gunpoint by a gang of armed robbers who burst into a store in Eckington demanding cash. A handgun was pointed at the woman shop worker. The robbers were also armed with baseball bats.
2008/2/11
The Press (York)
Three shotguns and 24 cartridges and two BB guns are among a haul of weapons handed in to police as part of an amnesty in York and Selby aimed at getting knives and guns off the street. It runs until the end of February.
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