Gun Amnesty Reaches Half Way Mark
Friday, June 14, 2013 @ 1:59 PM
Prince George, B.C.- Tomorrow marks the halfway mark in the month long firearms amnesty in the province, and so far, 18 firearms have been turned over to the Prince George RCMP.The idea of the amnesty is to reduce the potential for firearms to make it to the streets and to be used in the commission of crime. (At right, a selection of firearms seized in Prince George in January of 2012 during the execution of a search warrant on a P.G. residence.)
So far, under the June Amnesty program, Prince George RCMP have been called to 12 residences to pick up the following:
4x .303 rifles
5 x .22 rifles
1x 30-06 rifle
3 x 12 gauge shot guns
1x 20 gauge shot gun
1x 410 shot gun
2 x .22 revolvers
1 x .38 revolver
Other items turned in include: ammunition, magazines, holsters, a pellet gun, pellets and CO2 cartridges.
During the month long amnesty, owners of unwanted firearms or ammunition or any other weapons, are encouraged to contact police to have police attend their residence and pick up the unwanted items. Police do not want residents arriving at the detachment with firearms or any other kind of weapon.
Two of the people who have turned in guns said they were giving them up because the guns were very old and wouldn’t likely ever be used again, while two others said they were tuning over the firearms because the items belonged to a spouse who had since died.
During the month long amnesty, people can turn in these items without fear of repercussions providing the item has not been used in a criminal act. The items will be sent to a lab for analysis, and once determined to be free from connection to crime, the item will either be used in a demonstration education capacity, or destroyed. Eventually all such items will be destroyed.
Comments
Please, people, do not turn over unwanted guns to the police! Contact one of the many firearms safety instructors and give the guns to them to use in their classes. I recently talked to one that said much of the cost for the courses is the result of the police not being allowed to release firearms to be destroyed but still able to be used for safety training classes.
Sell or gift your unwanted legal firearms to responsible people currently licensed to purchase and possess them. Why give them to police?
“Why give them to police?”
Maybe people just don’t want the hassle of trying to sell an old worthless 30-06 or trying to track down a safety instructor to give it to.
Really, it’s not the end of the world if Grandpa’s old .303 ends up in an incinerator. It’s a hunk of metal with some wood thrown in for good measure, not a faberge egg.
Another couple of weeks and that should be it for P.G.’s crime problems.
And it’s any different than going through the hassle of tracking down a cop to come and pick it up?
I wonder why those firearms are being stored improperly? Last time I checked the regs a zip tie was not a lock.
Was it the second or third paragraph where you read those firearms were stored improperly billy? What paragraph did you read where zip ties were used in place of locks?
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