Police Refuse To Account For Firearms – Again

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From police:

I am writing to you in response to your request dated 3 May 2020. You asked for:

1. How many guns were secured as part of the buy back?
2. How many others were surrendered?
3. How many were destroyed?
4. How many were kept?
5. List items kept and reason.

Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).
Questions 1 and 2: As per information publicly available on the Police website, and
provisionally up to date as of 20 February 2020, Police collected 52,597 firearms under
the Buyback, and 5,119 under the Amnesty. Police is also currently in the process of
finalising additional data sets for publishing on the Police data website.

Police has also provided updated number for two particular data sets, those being
number of firearms collected, and number of firearms modified. These numbers were
provided to the Finance and…

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