Delta police had more than 50 firearms turned in last month during the province-wide gun amnesty program.
The program gives residents the opportunity to turn over unwanted guns and other weapons to police without fear of charges for unregistered weapons, as long as they have not been used to commit a crime.
"The overall goal of the program is to make the community safer and ensure guns don't get into the wrong hands," said department spokesperson Sgt.
Ciaran Feenan.
The program ran for the month of June and during that time, Delta residents turned over 11 shotguns, 33 rifles, 10 restricted handguns and three prohibited handguns.
Other weapons, or potential weapons, were also turned over: 20 pellet guns/ air pistols/air rifles, one starter pistol, one replica handgun, 3,037 rounds of ammunition, 1,400 air gun pellets, 69 CO2 cartridges and four seal bombs (used by commercial fisherman to keep seals away from fishing nets).
Feenan said the last gun amnesty program ran in 2006 and resulted in 110 firearms being turned in.
All weapons are destroyed by police.
