What happened after the Amnesty?
HUNDREDS of lethal weapons taken from the streets of South Yorkshire during a month-long gun amnesty are now out of harm’s way – for good!
Real and fake firearms, air weapons, BB guns and swords were among items surrendered to or seized by police throughout the March hand-in.
Now the haul has been melted down with help from staff at the Sheffield
plant of international steel engineers, Outo Kumpu.
Inspector Dave Owens, from South Yorkshire Police said: "The amnesty has
been very successful meaning such weapons are no longer on the streets and
has been run with other operations, which resulted in 40 arrests. Officers
are also visiting every secondary school in the county to warn youngsters
of the dangers of guns and knives."
A total of 105 weapons and ammunition were handed into the county’s police
stations during the amnesty – part of a wider campaign to tackle gun and
knife crime in South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Humberside. A further
77 firearms were also recovered by local officers throughout the same
period.
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Now all these weapons have been fed into a furnace at Outo Kumpu, off
Shepcote Lane, and melted with around 140 tonnes of scrap metal – to make
stainless steel that will be re-used for everything from washing machine
drums to cutlery and welding rods.
