Owners of blank firing pistols are being warned they must hand them into police during the next four weeks or face a possible prison sentence. Forces across England and Wales are holding a month ...

Four brands of blank firing ... of one of the guns after the amnesty ends could result in a prison sentence of 10 years. Diana Johnson MP, Minister of State for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention ...

Forty-five blank-firing guns have been handed over to South Yorkshire Police during a month-long amnesty. In February, police ...

Police have urged anyone in possession of a Turkish manufactured top-venting blank firer (TVBF) to hand them in. Anyone found with one of the guns faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

A number of blank-firing guns have been handed in to Derbyshire Police during an amnesty this month. The force said it had accepted 13 so-called top-venting blank firing (TVBF) weapons at police ...

The National Crime Agency highlighted four brands of blank firing guns which are ‘readily convertible’ to fire live ammunition. Owners of particular types of blank firing guns are urged to ...

Blank guns are used at sporting events as starter pistols, in film and theatre and for a range of other uses, such as scaring birds. They fire cartridges filled with gunpowder in the place of ...

More than 40 illegal blank firing guns were handed into Surrey and Sussex police stations in February More than 40 guns which fire blanks were handed into Surrey Police and Sussex Police following ...

Adrian Goldberg meets victims of gun crime and explores the UK's trade in illegal firearms. He discovers how easy it is to buy a blank firing pistol which can be illegally converted into a lethal ...

Gun owners in Greater Manchester have been handing over soon-to-be-illegal blank-firing pistols in a firearms amnesty. GMP has collected 18 of the Turkish-made weapons after visting gun clubs and ...

More than 40 guns which fire blanks were handed into Surrey Police and Sussex Police following a four-week firearms amnesty. The plea for Turkish-manufactured top-venting blank firers (TVBFs ...