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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 Police ...

Converted handguns that were originally designed to fire blanks are now responsible for more shootings in the UK than genuine handguns. Police data shows there were 64 discharges from converted models ...

Three members of a criminal gang have been jailed for their part in buying dozens of blank-firing handguns with a plan to turn them into live weapons. The legal blank pistols were bought from shops ...

An uptick in the use of imitation firearms and blank-firing guns has heightened the need to re-evaluate existing legislation in order to strike a balance between effective enforcement strategies and ...

Arms experts say the Turkish-made Zoraki 925 has been converted from a blank-firing gun to a real sub-machine gun by criminal gangs in the Middle East, Europe and Canada. Special to The Bee A mass ...

A local man has been charged after two blank-firing pistols were found in a Burlington home. In August of this year investigators from Halton Regional Police’s Guns and Gangs Unit received information ...