Police are holding a three-month weapons surrender POLICE are holding a three-month surrender for people to hand over weapons ahead of a change in the law. Along with the Government, Merseyside Police says it is determined to protect the public from serious violence, which includes targeting those carrying and using dangerous weapons and removing them from our streets. The Home Office Weapon Surrender and Compensation scheme started on Thursday and will run for three months, encouraging everyone that owns a weapon, legally or not to hand it in to officers before the law changes and makes it an offence to own weapons, now including flick and gravity knives.
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2:59 PM December 10, 2020
A three-month window for surrendering weapons newly classified as offensive, including knuckledusters and specified fast firing rifles, opened in Norfolk on Thursday (December 10).
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People in Norfolk have been given three months to surrender certain items that will soon be classed as offensive weapons.
New legislation, set out in the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, includes measures to control the sale of knives and corrosive substances.
It also introduces new offences relating to their possession and use.
The scope of a rifle. People in Norfolk are being given three months to surrender fast firing rifles to police under new legislation.