Britain’s National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) has urged the owners of hundreds of gas guns, blank-firing pistols, and unregistered shotguns to hand them over before they are stolen and used in violent crime.
NABIS is co-ordinating a National Firearms Surrender, running May 12–29, and is asking people to bring in weapons so they can be taken out of circulation and destroyed.
People are being offered the right to surrender guns anonymously and Gregg Taylor, NABIS’s forensic lead, reassured people they would face no charges unless the weapon they handed in could be linked to a crime.
He told The Epoch Times: “If there’s been a shooting and the ballistic material has been left at the scene once we do that forensic analysis we can draw a conclusion, a guestimate, what weapon was used. So we know at any one point in time what the weapons of interest are, so if any of those type of weapons were to be surrendered it’s quite obvious we’d want to pull those out and check them.”
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