Police forces around B-C are giving people who have guns they don't want, a month long amnesty to turn them in.
RCMP Assistant Commissioner Wayne Rideout says during the month of June you just call your local police force and they will send an officer to pick up the weapon.
RCMP Inspector Brad Haugli says it's generally residents who have guns passed down through the generations that use the program.
He says, "the probability of criminals turning in weapons is fairly unlikely. However, weapons that are in households that could be taken through a break-and-enter will find their ways to criminals to commit a crime. So having those weapons turned in is one less weapon on the street, potentially."
Haugli says it's also one less weapon a child can find or someone can use to harm themselves.
During the last gun amnesty in B-C in 2006 -- more than 32-hundred guns were turned in, along with 96-thousand rounds of ammunition, a rocket launcher and a machine gun.