People in Manchester are being urged to hand over their guns during a two-week long surrender of firearms and ammunition following a 30 per cent drop in firearms discharges over the past 12 months across the region. And, for criminals who refuse to hand over their weapons, police have a stark warning - "it’s only a matter of time before we find them ourselves and bring you to justice.”
From Thursday (May 12) every police force in the UK will partake in the campaign, co-ordinated by the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) and will see a crackdown on reducing violent crime and ridding lethal weapons from the streets. The National Firearm Surrender campaign will run until 29 May 2022, with officers from GMP urging people to surrender unlawfully held or unwanted guns and ammunition to help avoid them 'getting into the wrong hands'
Greater Manchester Police say they are 'determined to rid lethal weapons from our streets' as they also target collectors, licence holders and anyone else who may have inherited a firearm. They added that many firearms could even be being held in innocence of their illegality or forgotten in some people's homes. Firearms can be handed in to 11 different police stations across the region
