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 gunman targeted and robbed three women, one aged 18, in separate attacks in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. The teenager was pistol-whipped by her assailant and was left with a head injury. The gunman, armed with a small black gun, escaped with a handbag and two purses.
2008/1/10
BBC
A firearm and ammunition were seized by police during raids in Croxteth and Norris Green in Merseyside targeted at drug activity by two gangs, the Croxteth Crew and Strand Gang. Twenty eight people were arrested.
2008/1/10
Bucks Free Press
A cat was shot in the chest with an air rifle in Chalfont St Peter. The pellet became lodged on the opposite side of her chest, and vets said that it was "a miracle" the pellet missed all of her major organs.
2008/1/9
The Press (York)
Michael Simpson threatened a student with an air pistol during an attempted robbery in York in September 2006 (see Incidents). He was caught after a DNA sample left on the gun used in the robbery was matched to him after he had been stopped for a motoring offence. He has been jailed for five years after pleading guilty to attempted robbery.
2008/1/9
Metro
Carl Bridson terrorised his neighbour in Farnworth, near Bolton, for five years allegedly firing an air rifle at his house and playing loud music through the night. A CCTV was shot out with a rifle. Bridson has now been banned from living in his own home after he is released from prison where he is serving a six months sentence for harassment.
2008/1/9
Manchester Evening News
A man was threatened at gunpoint during an armed robbery at a New Year's Eve house party in Gorton. Three men burst into the house carrying an iron bar, a hammer and a black handgun. The gang stole a mobile phone and a handbag containing keys to a car which they used to flee the scene.
2008/1/9
Maidenhead Advertiser
Armed police surrounded a packed commuter train after reports that a teenager had boarded the train at Bourne End station with a handgun. An 18-year-old was stopped and searched but no weapon was found.
2008/1/9
Liverpool Echo
A robber held a handgun to the neck of an elderly man during an incident in St Helens in August 2007. Peter Waite, who admitted two firearms offences, was jailed for five year and seven months for threatening the victim and another man during a robbery on a bus in the town. Lee Smith, his accomplice in the second incident which involved the theft of a bottle of wine and six cans of beer, was jailed for four years.
2008/1/9
Argus (Brighton)
Armed burglars left behind their gun, a .22 air rifle, when they stole a scramble bike worth around £800 from a shed in the back garden of a house in Portslade.
2008/1/8
Newham Recorder
A man was shot in the back in Stratford, east London, after he had just got out of his car. It is thought that the victim and gunman knew each other.
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