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.
Ryan Farmery has been ordered to pay a £120 fine with a victim surcharge of £20, costs of £50, and a £150 criminal courts charge and has had his gun confiscated after pleading guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour relating to him having a paintball gun in public in Woking, Surrey. He was seen walking around with the imitation gun on display after allegedly picking it up from a friend's house where it had been found during a clear up.
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UKNIP 247
Heckler & Koch handgun and 50 rounds of viable ammunition found in a parked van in Brixton, South London. Click on media link to read full report.
A cat has been left paralysed after being shot in the spine with an air rifle in North Weald, Essex. He was probably shot from fairly close range as the pellet was quite deep inside.
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Deadline News
Details of attacks on paramedics, published after a Freedom of Information request, highlight two cases in which ambulance staff were shot in Glasgow in 2011. One worker was shot in the head with a pellet gun by a group of eight-to-ten-year-old boys while she was administering treatment to a patient. Another worker was shot in the shoulder while he was transporting a patient to hospital. The number of overall attacks on paramedics in the country is reported to have risen 30% in the last two years.
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The Scottish Sun
Police officers recovered a firearm while searching a home in Edinburgh, Lothian. Click on media link to read full report.
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The Courier
Liam Timms, 23 and of no fixed address, has been jailed for seventeen years after being found guilty of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life. Timms presented himself at Warwick Hospital with a shotgun wound to his left hand about ten minutes after a man in Coventry, Warwickshire was shot in the right forearm and left thigh. A Seat Leon was seen speeding away from the area and was later found, partly burned-out. Police discovered Timms’ blood and a partly-melted unfired shotgun cartridge in the vehicle. The shotgun was not recovered, but was surmised to be a sawn-off shotgun as it had been fired inside the car. A second man, who had been in the car at the time of the incident, was found not guilty of the same charge.
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Liverpool Echo, 8 October 2014Ashley Joseph Udu has had his jail term extended by six months for wasting the Criminal Appeal Court's time by spuriously requesting permission to appeal his convictions. Udu was originally jailed for eight years with a five-year extended licence period after he and two other men threatened the occupant during a burglary of a house in Runcorn, Cheshire. The three masked robbers forced their way into the property and threatened to blow the victim's head off while pointing an imitation gun at him if he did not open his safe. The trio hit the victim in the head when he tried to escape, and fled in a getaway car but were forensically traced from a glove Udu left in the vehicle.
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Manchester Evening News
A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to an eight-month detention and training order after he admitted possessing a firearm, possessing of class A drugs and handling stolen goods. He had pulled out an imitation handgun when a shopkeeper in Rochdale refused to sell him drink. The shopkeeper floored the teenager with a baseball bat.
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lithlingow gazette
Derek Hardie has been jailed for 14-and-a-half months after pleading guilty to possessing a shotgun without a certificate and two assaults in Brigend, West Lothian. After discovering his best friend and girlfriend had been seeing each other Hardie went to his girlfriend's house and hit his friend on the shoulder with a bottle when the other man agreed to speak to him. He then armed himself with a shotgun from his uncle's house and ran towards his friend brandishing the unloaded gun, causing local residents to flee in fear. Hardie was disarmed by his friend in the ensuing struggle.
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A six-year-old cat was shot 16 times by a group armed with air rifles and BB guns in Glossop, Derbyshire. He survived the attack and underwent surgery to remove the pellets.
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