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 are made with a fully-blocked barrel and only fire blank cartridges.

Officers said the blank-firing guns will cease to be legal to own after 28 February. TVBF firearms are popular with organised criminals because they can be readily converted into lethal guns, the ...

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 ...

Out of the 106 firearm discharges in 2023, 64 were from blank firing guns, according to official figures. A converted TVBF was used in the killing of Sebastiaan James-Kraan, ...

Owners of particular types of blank firing guns, which have become popular with criminals, have been urged to hand the firearms in to police stations after tests found they can be easily converted ...

Four Turkish-made blank-firing guns were "easily accessible" and could be "easily converted" into lethal weapons that could be used on the streets of Merseyside. Merseyside Police Detective Chief ...

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 ...

The National Crime Agency (NCA) highlighted four brands of blank firing guns, originally designed to fire blank ammunition without a bullet or projectile component, which are “readily ...

Officers said the blank-firing guns will cease to be legal to own after 28 February. TVBF firearms are popular with organised criminals because they can be readily converted into lethal guns, the ...

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 ...