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) ran the ...

A livery cab driver suffered a terrifying brush with death early Monday morning, as he was shot in the face during an ...

More than 40 illegal blank firing guns were handed into Surrey and Sussex ... Legal TBVFs have a fully blocked barrel which can only discharge blanks and they are also recognisable as they are ...

Dozens of blank-firing guns which have now been banned due to how easily they can be converted into potentially deadly ...

Britain has some of the tightest gun controls in the world ... into live weapons by tampering with the blocked barrels of top-venting blanks bought mainly from Turkey, where gunfire is common ...

An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...

A drug dealer from Nottingham hid a loaded gun in the housing of his car’s gearstick. Nottingham Crown Court heard that ...

"Drilling out the barrel, replacing a small number of parts ... might have looked at it and thought 'oh, they're just BB guns or blank-firers, but that that's not the case." As with elsewhere ...

Blank firers, which have a fully blocked barrel and are only designed to discharge ... law-abiding people who live in areas affected by gun crime. Where people are willing to support the police ...

Armed with the gun and machetes ... but the bullet lodged in the barrel of the converted blank-firing pistol, according to West Yorkshire Police. The force said the victim had fled into a nearby ...

THE BARREL - VISIBLE THROUGH THE BULLET ... Whelan returned fire with four shots at near-point-blank range. Investigators later learned that Smith's gun had jammed. They said the whole incident ...