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Amnesty to make streets safer
Michael Byrne29/ 2/2008
POLICE officers are urging imitation and air gun owners to hand them in at a police station this month and help make our streets safer.
Reports of people carrying, what looks like real guns, can lead to the police’s firearms unit being called out. Officers are trained to treat all sightings of firearms as the real thing as it is almost impossible to distinguish between replica and real firearms.
Carrying imitation firearms in a public place without authority is illegal and could lead to six months in prison.
Imitation firearms, air weapons and ball bearing (BB) guns can be handed in at all police stations with a counter service in Greater Manchester during opening hours until 31 March 2008.
Wherever possible guns handed in will be recycled and proceeds donated to charity to help fund projects in war-torn communities around the world.
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