For the second year in a row, law enforcement agencies across Saskatchewan are offering a firearms amnesty. The program started on Monday and runs until April 19th.

Weyburn Police Service Deputy Police Chief Rod Stafford said the process is pretty straightforward.

“Anybody that has any unwanted firearms, ammunition, anything like that, can contact your applicable policing agency, and arrange for us to come pick it up without fear of prosecution,” Stafford explained.

The amnesty call isn’t asking for people to surrender firearms they have a legitimate want and need for. The goal of the amnesty is to remove unwanted firearms from circulation.

In a release from the WPS, they explained a number of unwanted firearms are stolen each year through break and enters. Those firearms then enter the illegal firearms circulation and become a threat to the general public, and law enforcement.

All of the firearms turned in will be destroyed.

Stafford explained the best thing to do to participate in the amnesty is to call the police to have them pick up the firearms, as opposed to bringing them in.

“Nothing makes a police officer or dispatcher more nervous than to look out the front door and see somebody come walking in with a gun.”

Weyburn residents can arrange for a pick up by calling the Weyburn Police Service at (306) 848-3250.