firearms amnesty

Month-long amnesty calls on owners to hand in now-illegal firearms

Firearms owners are being urged to check if their previously lawful weapon is one of five now classified as illegal – and to hand them in safely during a month-long amnesty. Police forces across England and Wales will be holding a four-week firearms amnesty (February 2-27) for five models of side or top-venting (TVBFs) weapons manufactured by Bruni. The following five imitation firearms can...

Police firearms amnesty hailed a success

The firearms amnesty held by Devon and Cornwall Police last month (3 – 17 November 2014) has been hailed as a success.

Final results show that hundreds of guns and literally bins full of ammunition were handed in to police at participating stations throughout Devon and Cornwall.

In total 446 weapons were taken in, and 15,721 items of ammunition were collected to be passed on to...