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.
Chronicle Live, 21 September 2015Armed police were called to a housing estate in Prudhoe, Northumberland to reports of an altercation between two men known to each other, one of whom may have been in possession of a firearm and possibly a knife. Officers arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of possessing a gun.
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BBC
Terence Gavan has been jailed for 11 years after admitting 22 counts relating to the manufacture and possession of improvised explosive devices, firearms and ammunition plus six offences under the Terrorism Act for the possession of weapons manuals. More than 30 firearms, including pistols and revolvers, were among the weaponry found in his room at his home in Batley, West Yorkshire. Gavan was discharged from the Army when he was jailed in 1993 after he produced a firearm in a threatening manner during an argument in a pub in Dewsbury. He had a long-standing preoccupation with firearms and explosives. There was little evidence of what he intended to use the weapons for, but the court heard he had a strong hostility towards immigrants.
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Dewsbury Reporter
A cat has been left with an air rifle pellet lodged in her back after she was shot with an air rifle near the family home in Earlsheaton, West Yorkshire. Similar potentially fatal injuries are a common sight at the Veterinary Group's surgeries. One of partners said it was hard to know the true picture as many owners were unaware their pets had been shot.
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Romford Recorder
A 15-year-old boy was almost blinded when he was shot in the face with a paintball machine gun in a drive-by attack in Rainham, east London. The shooting may be linked to the theft of ten high power paintball rifles, which look almost identical to an M4 machine gun, from a paintball centre in Upminster in December 2009. A jewellers shop in Rainham has also been shot at.
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This is Leicestershire
A man from Hartshome, Leicestershire, is on trial accused of 26 offences of cruelty to his two sons and two daughters and two counts of actual bodily harm against his wife. The alleged incidents which occurred between 1987 and 2000 include shooting at his children with a BB gun.
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Two 15-year-old boys were arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place after allegedly shooting a BB gun at a man in Earley, Berkshire. Police are keen to speak to the victim, who fled the scene, to check whether he was injured.
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