Gun Incidents in Great Britain
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This is Walsall
21-04-2009
A porter was threatened with a gun and crowbar by a robber who stole cash from a hotel in Walsall, West Midlands. The money was taken from the till and safe.
Wetherby News
21-04-2009
A man is in custody after police found heroin and a stun gun in his home in Wetherby, West Yorkshire.
BBC
21-04-2009
A pet cat may need to have one of his legs amputated after being hit with what is believed was an airgun pellet near his home in Allhallows, Kent.
BBC
21-04-2009
RSPCA inspectors in Cornwall are investigating several incidents involving cats. In one of these a cat from Menheniot has had one of its back legs amputated after it was shot with an airgun.
Ely Standard
20-04-2009
John Smith kept a shotgun propped against a kitchen cabinet with a box of ammunition nearby at his home in Little Downham, Cambridgeshire. He did not have a certificate for the gun. He pleaded guilty to possessing a shotgun without a certificate and was fined £250 and ordered to pay costs. The weapon and ammunition were forfeited and will be destroyed.
Scarborough Evening News
20-04-2009
David Harrison has been given a 21 month prison sentence for carrying a hammer and an airgun in public. He pleaded guilty to charges of using threatening abusive behaviour and having an offensive weapon in his possession. In the first of two incidents he was in a shop in Scarborough with his girlfriend who was found carrying a case containing an air rifle along with its ammunition while he was purchasing alcohol. He identified to police officers that the gun belonged to him. He was banned from possessing firearms as a result of many previous convictions. The forfeiture of his weapons was ordered.
BBC
20-04-2009
Two teenagers have been arrested after a man was hit by an airgun pellet as he walked along a street in Loughborough, Leicestershire. The victim was treated in hospital for minor injuries to his leg.
BBC
19-04-2009
A man has been killed in a shooting incident in Handsworth, Birmingham. He was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest where he was later pronounced dead. It is reported that the victim was seen arguing with another man seconds before the shooting (BBC, 21 April 2009). Another man was shot in the leg in a shooting in the same stretch of the road in June 2008 (Birmingham Mail, 23 April 2009).
Tivy-Side Advertiser
19-04-2009
Robert Lech was spotted by police in a car park in Cardigan with a loaded .22 calibre air rifle in his hands. He was accompanied by four youths and his three-year-old daughter. He told then he was shooting at a marker in the river. He had purchased the air rifle a few days previously and said nobody told him he could not use it in public. He pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a loaded air weapon in a public place and was given a six months Community Order.
BBC
19-04-2009
A man has been charged with attempted robbery and possession of a firearm after a sales assistant in a toy shop in Portsmouth was allegedly threatened with a handgun.
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About this information
This information is provided by the Infer Trust. It is compiled from media reports of incidents in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland has different gun legislation. We know the information is incomplete, though we believe nearly all of the most serious crimes are included.