Battlefords RCMP to participate in gun amnesty program
The Battlefords RCMP detachment will join police forces from around Saskatchewan in the first ever provincial gun amnesty program, which begins Thursday.
The month-long program is designed to help provide residents with a safe way to dispose of unwanted, documented or undocumented firearms and weapons, as well as restricted or prohibited firearms that have not been used in a crime.
“This amnesty will allow for residents to surrender these types of weapons without fear of prosecution of an unlicensed or unregistered weapon,” Battlefords RCMP Staff Sgt. Darcy Woolfitt said. “We will also accept replica firearms, military ordinances, chemical munitions, explosives and ammunition.”
Last year the City of Regina held a similar amnesty program, which took in 157 guns in a two-week period. Based on that success, the decision was made to launch the initiative province-wide.