ARMED police who swooped on a Rossendale home after receiving reports of a man brandishing a firearm found it was just someone making a ‘gun gesture’.

Police were alerted to West View in Haslingden at around 1.45pm on Sunday after receiving reports that a man had pointed a handgun at a passer-by from inside a house through a window.

MORE TOP STORIES:

Police arrested a 50-year-old man from Haslingden at the scene on suspicion of possessing an imitation firearm but later released him without charge.