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.
Barry Fitzsimmons, a former British soldier accused of murdering two colleagues in Iraq, had pulled a gun on children while at his home in Rochdale, Lancashire. In April 2009 he was convicted of a public order offence after he pulled a flare gun and fired it in the air. Also, in November 2008, he had been given a suspended sentence for firearms offences after being found in possession of prohibited ammunition, believed to be 5.5mm tapered NATO issue bullets.
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Eastern Daily Press
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Welwyn Hatfield Times
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Express
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Evening Courier
Two men wearing Halloween masks, one of whom was thought to have been carrying a handgun robbed a bookmakers in Bradford. Two female workers were left shaken but were uninjured.
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A shop worker at a Northampton holiday park was threatened by a robber who put a handgun to his head and said he would "blow his head off". The victim was forced to hand over £150 before the robber ran off.
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Liverpool Echo
During drugs raids Merseyside Police officers arrested 11 people at addresses in Anfield, Maghull, Bootle, Kirkby and Norris Green on suspicion of committing a variety of offences including possession of a shotgun.
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BBC
Salim Razaq, a police officer from Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire, helped his gangster brother by hiding weapons and intimidating witnesses. He pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice, possessing firearms and ammunition and misconduct in a public office. When his home was raided in March 2010 (see Incidents) a Sten machine gun and two Uzi machine guns were found hidden under the stairs. Other items including 228 bullets were seized. In the same case a prisoner, Louis Bamber, admitted possession of a firearm.
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Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Armed police were called to a house in Millfield, Peterborough, after a man threatened to shoot officers trying to arrest him. He claimed to have firearms but none were found in the house after the man had been removed.
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BBC News
A 67-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm without a licence, and a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old were arrested on suspicion of stealing over 150 pheasants in a one-month period from farms in Faversham, Kent. They were arrested after police searched a number of a properties and recovered a rifle, a pistol, two airguns and a crossbow.
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