Issue Date: 09/08/2025
On Friday 8th August 2025, at approximately 5:50pm, Gardaí from the Bridewell Community Response Team, while conducting proactive foot patrols, searched an individual in the Smithfield Square area of Dublin 7.
During the course of the search, Gardaí recovered a handgun and a quantity of ammunition.
The individual, a male in his 50s, was arrested at the scene and is currently detained at a Garda station in the Dublin Region under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939.
The firearm has now been forwarded to the Garda Technical Bureau for ballistic examination.
Investigations are ongoing.
