346 weapons turned in to police in gun amnesty

Waterloo Region's first-ever weapons amnesty is over and police have a small arsenal to show for their efforts.

A total of346 weapons,including 233 guns and over 12,000rounds of ammunition were turned in during the month-long program.

Waterloo Regional Police Sergeant Andy Harrington says that most people who turned in their guns were eager to get rid of them.

"These are guns that may have been handed down through generations or that people have had within their families or someone has passed away who was a lawful firearms owner and they simply didn't want to keep them. A lot of people were relieved to turn these fire arms and weapons over to police," he said.

Of all the weapons turned in, 29 areprohibited weapons and four are military-grade weapons.

There were some oddities discovered as well,like a set of nunchucks, ninja stars,a Red RyderBBgun, a WWIItraining bomb and even a can of bear spray.

Harrington said police will investigate each of the weapons before sending them to a steel factory to be melted down and re-purposed.

"Each one of these firearms will be investigated. We don't have any that we believe are crime guns, per se but certainly we will be taking a look at each one to determine if further investigation of testing is required," he said.