Thai police identified the gun used in Tuesday’s shootings as one of these so-called blank, or blank-firing, handguns. Blank guns generally face fewer restrictions and can be imported and ...

Blank guns have been openly advertised on sale on the internet, even on sites of major online retailers in Asia. In the arrests announced Thursday, the alleged suppliers were said to have been ...

It is legal for anyone aged over 18 in the UK to by a TVBF without a licence unless they are readily convertible. The weapons ...

Officers said the blank-firing guns will cease to be legal to own after 28 February. TVBF firearms are popular with organised ...

News; UK News; Crime; Blank firing guns set to be outlawed after a string of murders An amnesty will be held early next year for owners of four types of blank firearms to be surrendered after ...

Police in Thailand say they have arrested three men they accuse of selling the handgun and ammunition used by a 14-year-old boy to allegedly kill two people and wound five ...

Blank-firing guns are designed for use in theatre and film, and as starting pistols Police in Kent, Surrey and Sussex are holding an amnesty for four types of Turkish-made blank firing guns that ...

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 ...

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 ...