The following pages provide detailed information regarding the misuse, particular concerns, dangers, and wider public safety issues relating to each of the different types of guns listed.

AIRGUNS - including definition, information about the uses and misuses of high powered and low powered air rifles and pistols.  Problems associated with buying and selling airguns. and information on how airguns contribute to gun crime. 

AIRSOFT  - including definition, information about the uses of airsoft guns, and the extent of misuse. Information about the consequences occurring as a result of the way in which these weapons were dealt with in the VCRA 2006 and how airsoft guns contribute to gun crime.

HANDGUNS - including definition, information regarding offences, background on handguns becoming prohibited weapons in the UK and information on how handguns contribute to gun crime. 

IMITATIONS (and BB/ replica guns) - including definitions, information about misuse and the particular dangers of armed response unit confrontations faced by children and adults who are in possession of these guns. Information on how imitations (bb and replica guns) contribute to gun crime. 

PAINTBALL GUNS - including definitions, information about misuse and the particular problems of lack of information about injury issues. Concerns regarding accuracy following fatality and information on how paintball guns contribute to gun crime.

RIFLES - including definition, information about uses and misuses.  Information on how rifles contribute to gun crime.

SHOTGUNS - including definition, information about uses and misuses.  Information regarding the particular problems associated with the use of shotguns in domestic violence and in cases of suicide and self-harm and how shotguns contribute to gun crime.