Around the country’s police circles, piles of all kinds of weapons are growing. This includes, among other things, sabres, axes, pistols and hunting weapons.
The illegal weapons are piling up after almost a month of a nationwide free-to-rent campaign.
It shows pictures from several police districts, which on Tuesday show off the handed in items.
You can anonymously and without penalty hand over illegal weapons to the police in November.
The police have previously held similar actions in 2009, 2013 and 2017.
The East Jutland Police informs TV2 Østjylland that they have received around 1,000 submissions. One submission can consist of several different effects.
Approximately half of the 1000 submissions are hunting weapons. This is what Rasmus Houmann, acting police commissioner and leader of the police’s citizen expedition, tells the media.
– A typical submission is older hunting weapons. At the beginning of the submission period, it was rifles, but right now it is shotguns, it says on Tuesday.
The weapons that are handed in will be destroyed.
However, some may be historically interesting. Here, the museum world gets involved to decide whether they should be preserved for posterity. It can be, for example, at the National Museum.
Rasmus Houmann tells TV2 Østjylland that in Aarhus they have also received a number of smaller handguns. A lot is from the time of the war, he adds.
Only firearms, ammunition, stabbing weapons and blunt weapons such as swords, bayonets and the like can be handed in at the police stations.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
