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 ...

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 ...

The legal blank pistols were bought from shops around the West Midlands by Perhys Neale, 31, who was driven by accomplice, 33-year-old Shaun Williams. The guns were passed to Christopher Watson ...

Stoffregen told police the gun wasn’t real. “However, it was a starter pistol (blank pistol). Stoffregen advised me the pistol was in his room” where “there was a black revolver pistol lay ...

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 ...

A total of three blank cartridges were discovered in the gas pistol used in Saturday's assault against Bulgarian ethnic Turkish politician Ahmed Dogan, according to experts. Police in Bulgaria ...

Dahiya, who faced pistol man from point-blank range said his prime objective was to save lives of people by diverting the attention of the shooter who was firing in the air. Speaking to India TV ...