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Since 2013, the police have already destroyed 325,000 weapons, preventing them from being used to commit crimes.
The PSP reports that, between 2013 and 2026, it destroyed more than 325,345 weapons of various models and calibres, seized in operations or handed in by members of the public and disposed of by that police force.
Voluntary hand-ins of weapons at police stations since 2019 total 97,097.
The weapons now destroyed reflect, according to the institution, the PSP's 'operational action at the level of criminal and administrative activity'.
