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20-09-2022, 08:29 PM
Radio Sintonia:
The Intervention of Arms and Explosives of the Command of Las Palmas, proceeded in the month of September to the destruction (reduction to scrap), of more than 4000 weapons, which were deposited in the Interventions of Weapons and Explosives of the province of Las Palmas.
The weapons were transferred to a steel company, where through the smelting process, they were reduced to scrap. Among those destroyed, they stand out for being the ones with the largest number, shotguns, although there were also rifles, carbines, pistols, revolvers, compressed air weapons, spearfishing rifles, knives, alarm weapons and signals and other types.
These are weapons deposited for different reasons; those of private property whose owners have requested their destruction, those whose destruction has been decreed by the judicial or administrative authority, those deposited at the disposal of individuals, once the maximum deposit period has elapsed, as well as those that were not awarded in the arms auction held last November, those included as prohibited because they lack marks, numbers or punches and other reasons.
This destruction is part of the Comprehensive Firearms Control Plan (PICAF), to comply with national legislation and the United Nations Directive on weapons.
With this control plan, the Civil Guard aims to prevent the illegal trafficking of firearms, the non-recovery of unused ones, the non-transformation of alarm weapons and signals, in addition to those of air or compressed gas into firearms, and even the artisanal manufacture of devices capable of firing real cartridges.
The Intervention of Arms and Explosives of the Command of Las Palmas, proceeded in the month of September to the destruction (reduction to scrap), of more than 4000 weapons, which were deposited in the Interventions of Weapons and Explosives of the province of Las Palmas.
The weapons were transferred to a steel company, where through the smelting process, they were reduced to scrap. Among those destroyed, they stand out for being the ones with the largest number, shotguns, although there were also rifles, carbines, pistols, revolvers, compressed air weapons, spearfishing rifles, knives, alarm weapons and signals and other types.
These are weapons deposited for different reasons; those of private property whose owners have requested their destruction, those whose destruction has been decreed by the judicial or administrative authority, those deposited at the disposal of individuals, once the maximum deposit period has elapsed, as well as those that were not awarded in the arms auction held last November, those included as prohibited because they lack marks, numbers or punches and other reasons.
This destruction is part of the Comprehensive Firearms Control Plan (PICAF), to comply with national legislation and the United Nations Directive on weapons.
With this control plan, the Civil Guard aims to prevent the illegal trafficking of firearms, the non-recovery of unused ones, the non-transformation of alarm weapons and signals, in addition to those of air or compressed gas into firearms, and even the artisanal manufacture of devices capable of firing real cartridges.