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A gunman has been jailed for aiming a loaded ball-bearing firing weapon at police as they tried to arrest him. Aaron Mitchell terrified the two officers who were confronted by him holding the ...

A young dad who shot at a gang of thugs with a ball-bearing gun after they beat him up has been jailed for a year. Damon Brumell armed himself with the weapon, which was legally owned, after his nose ...

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