Most weapons have been handed in in the police region North in recent years. Last year, it was about 5,100.
It's all possible, but most often it's old shotguns and elk rifles of various quality and caliber, says Nils-Olov Gärdin, who works at the weapons group in the region.
According to Gärdin, one reason why the region tops the statistics may be that the police often visit weapon owners at home to inspect how they store their weapons.
It spreads that we do it. Then you might know that you don't have proper storage and that it's not worth buying a gun cabinet for some old scrap weapon. Then you scrap it instead, he says to SVT.
