Gun Incidents in Great Britain
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BBC News
12-02-2013
An employee was allegedly hit in the head with a gun by two armed robbers at a store in Birmingham, West Midlands. The victim was able to fight off his attackers with a shop sign and they escaped with a bottle of juice and some cigarettes. The shop worker flagged down police, who have arrested one suspect. The victim required treatment in hospital for a minor head injury.
Birmingham Mail
11-02-2013
Nicholas Barton and Benjamin Kellman have been jailed for 15 years each for a violent armed burglary in which they assaulted a family at their home in Birmingham, West Midlands. Then pair were two members of a gang of four masked men who forced their way into the property by first sending a woman to the door. They threatened the family with an imitation gun and a machete, repeatedly stamping on the stomach of a man who had recently had an operation and holding a woman with a baby by her hair at gunpoint. They escaped with the keys to a car which was later found abandoned close by.
Wales Online
11-02-2013
Four teenagers, aged 19, 17 and two aged 16, have been arrested after they were reported to be shooting a gun at members of the public in the centre of Caerphilly, Gwent. Firearms officers were deployed and an imitation firearm was recovered.
BBC News
10-02-2013
A man is alleged to have pointed a firearm at an employee in a bar in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire. He is reported to have attempted to order a drink after the bar was already closed and to have produced the gun when he was refused service. He fled on foot and no arrests have been made.
Harlow Star
10-02-2013
Police in Essex have issued a warning to gun owners after 2012 saw at least four thefts of legally-held weapons from homes in the county. Police advised gun owners to ensure that: general security is of a high standard; guns are locked away in gun cabinets securely fitted to solid walls out of sight of casual observers; cabinet keys are never left on easy-to-find hooks near the cabinets or in drawers; keys are kept on the person at all times and a spare set hidden somewhere in the house; weapons are never left unattended in vehicles; and that any air weapons are also locked away, especially if there are young people under the age of 18 in the house.
BBC News
10-02-2013
Ten people have been arrested after police raids in Hartlepool, County Durham and Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire in an ongoing investigation into gun-related criminal activity. Five men and a woman were charged with violence and firearms offences. The other four people were released on bail.
Peterborough Telegraph
10-02-2013
Firearms officers were dispatched after reports of fight between up to 14 people involving a gun on a street in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. The disturbance was contained and two people were arrested.
Bradford Telegraph 7 Argus
09-02-2013
Mohammad Kayani has been acquitted of possessing a sawn-off shotgun that was found in the back garden of a residential property in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Kayani's fingerprints were lifted from the rubbish bag in which the pump-action gun had been wrapped but there was no evidence that he had handled the weapon itself.
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
09-02-2013
Adam Hamilton, 18, has been sentenced to six months in a young offenders' institution after pleading guilty to theft, common assault and possession of a stun gun. He and a 15-year-old male pushed two boys off their bikes before escaping on them. The victims had only minor injuries but during the investigation police recovered a taser from Hamilton's bedroom at his home in Bradley, West Yorkshire.
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
09-02-2013
Mohammed Rabnawaz and Jameel Ahmed have been jailed for eight and three years respectively after they were linked to two sawn-off shotguns, ammunition, balaclavas, cocaine, heroin and drug dealing equipment that were recovered from a locked cellar in Bradford, West Yorkshire during a police operation to target armed drug dealing in the city. Rabnawaz was found in possession of the keys to the drug factory and his DNA was found on a shotgun but Ahmed's fingerprints were only discovered on the cocaine in the cellar.
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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.