Blank firing pistols available to order online from around £100 are being converted into lethal weapons in makeshift factories across the UK, police have warned. Officers from the Metropolitan ...

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 ...

Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently seized 240 blank firing pistols at Dulles International Airport that had come to the United States from Turkey. The guns seized Friday ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blank firing pistols available to order online from around £100 are being converted into lethal weapons in makeshift factories across the UK, police have warned. Officers from the Metropolitan ...