Parkland residents with unwanted firearms or ammunition are encouraged to participate in the provincial gun amnesty.
Taking place all month, you can call the Dauphin RCMP Detachment and make plans for an officer to safely take your unwanted guns.
Constable Rob Tuff with Dauphin’s RCMP spoke with us about the program.
“We encourage people to phone the detachment before trying to turn over any firearms. They can give the detachment a call at 204-622-5020, we will make arrangements to either pick up the firearms at that point or make arrangements for the person to deliver them to the detachment.”
Tuff encourages people to think about if they really need or will use their guns again.
“If you do have firearms in your home, in your garage, wherever they may be stored and if you are really never going to be using them again, do you really need to be keeping them? The message was, if the answer is “no” to that question, then we encourage people to make the call.”
The police won’t lay charges against anyone turning in a weapon unless it was used to commit a crime or was stolen.
