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 17-year-old was arrested for possessing a firearm after two gangs clashed at Chapeltown station in Sheffield. Armed officers were called after the police had staged a search of the train following the confrontation and found an airgun in a toilet.
2008/1/28
Northampton Chronicle & Echo
A man fired a shot during a dispute in a Northampton street. Nobody was injured and a blank firearm was recovered. Police are hunting the gunman.
2008/1/28
Bramley Today
Desmond Sharp repeatedly shot his wife with a .22 air rifle in the living room of their house in Fairfield Hill in Leeds after he had been drinking. He has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.
2008/1/28
BBC
A rifle was pointed at police officers called to a disturbance in Penhill, Swindon. A man was arrested in connection with a serious firearms offence, and a number of air rifles and pellets along with crossbows and bolts were recovered from a nearby house.
2008/1/28
BBC
A presenter filming a TV documentary in Croxteth, Merseyside, has had a gun pointed at her. A car with blacked out windows pulled up alongside the crew and an arm with a gun came out of the window. Police are investigating.
2008/1/27
Scotland on Sunday
A gunman is being hunted after he fled empty-handed after attempting rob a newsagents in Pollok, Glasgow.
2008/1/27
BBC
Two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, were taken to hospital after a shooting in the Hyson Green area of Nottingham. Their injuries were not life threatening and the 15-year-old has been released from hospital. Police have stepped up patrols in and around Nottingham.
2008/1/27
Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Police are appealing for witnesses after a firearm was discharged outside a pub in Bristol. Damage was caused to a window.
2008/1/26
Evening News
An 18-year-old girl was shot in the face with a pellet gun during a drive-by shooting in Portobello. The shot hit her on the lip. She was left in shock.
2008/1/26
Evening News
A soldier who couldn't keep up with his colleagues whilst training sparked a police alert when he was spotted walking past house in the Juniper Green area of Edinburgh carrying a rifle. He had decided to walk back to the barracks taking a short cut. The incident was described by the Army as "an error of judgement".
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