Gun Incidents in Great Britain

Daily Post

20-01-2015

A gas gun was found in a hedge near a primary school in Connah's Quay, Flintshire. Police firearms experts examined the gun and reported it to be non-functional.

BBC News

20-01-2015

A one-year-old cat was paralysed after she was shot with an air rifle and fell two storeys from scaffolding on which she was walking at a house in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The pellet seriously damaged her spine and she had to be put to sleep.

Gazette Live

20-01-2015

Ricky Corner, 19, has been given a community order with one year of supervision for pointing his younger brother's toy gun at his sister's partner during an 

argument. Following an initial dispute, the other man chased Corner out of a house in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire brandishing a kitchen knife. Corner returned to apologise armed with the imitation gun, and when the man threatened him with a hammer he pointed the gun at the assailant, in what he claimed was an attempt to protect himself and his sister.

STV News

20-01-2015

A fatal accident inquiry has found that the the death of Gavin Donaldson, 37, who died after his bolt action rifle discharged on moorland near Oxton, Berwickshire, could have been avoided if the gun had been unloaded before it was put inside his vehicle. The gamekeeper suffered a fatal head wound when the gun went off as he went to get into the vehicle.

Lynn News

19-01-2015

A 16-year-old boy was arrested and released on bail after reports that shots had been fired in an incident in Swaffham, Norfolk. Firearms officers were sent to the scene and recovered an air rifle and an air pistol as well as making the arrest.

The Hinkley Times

19-01-2015

A man wearing a burka and armed with a suspected firearm attempted to rob a bank in Oadby, Leicestershire. He threatened an employee, demanding cash, but fled empty handed on foot when the alarm was sounded.

Brent & Kilburn Times

19-01-2015

A 17-year-old cat has died after being shot with an air rifle in Kingsbury, north London. She returned home with a shattered bone and severed nerves in her back leg and her injury was so severe that she had to be put to sleep.

Warrington Guardian

19-01-2015

David Holding has been jailed for three years and four months for keeping a working sawn-off shotgun in the house in which he lived with his partner and three children in Warrington, Cheshire. He claimed to have been keeping the prohibited weapon in order to pay off part of a £1,000 drugs debt.

Keighley News

19-01-2015

Lance Spencer has been handed a 12-month community order with supervision; been ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work and to pay £100 costs and a £60 victim surcharge; and has had his air rifle destroyed for carrying it along a street in the centre of Keighley, West Yorkshire. He brandished the unloaded .22 calibre rifle and fired it towards a box and a passing child also asked Spencer whether it was loaded. He was caught on CCTV, and police went to his house where he was found with two air rifles.

Western Morning News

18-01-2015

Police were called by ambulance workers when a man threatened to kill himself while holding a shotgun and a torch and standing on a boat he had covered in fuel harboured in Falmouth, Cornwall. Officers negotiated with the man for several hours while the lifeboat and fire services stood by, until he surrendered and was taken to hospital for treatment. A decommissioned shotgun was later found in the city centre where it had been abandoned.