Complying with current national legislation and the United Nations directive on
firearms, the Intervention of Weapons and Explosives of the Las Palmas Command,
has carried out the destruction of more than 1000 weapons
Among the destroyed weapons, there are firearms such as shotguns, pistols,
revolvers and rifles, as well as edged weapons, compressed air and other
The Weapons and Explosives Intervention of the Las Palmas Command, proceeded in the month of September to the destruction (reduction to scrap) of more than 1000 weapons, which were deposited in the Weapons and Explosives Interventions of the province of Las Palmas. Palms.
These weapons were transported to a steel company, where through the smelting process, they were reduced to scrap metal. Among those destroyed, shotguns stand out for being the largest in number, although there were also rifles, carbines, pistols, revolvers, compressed air weapons, spearfishing rifles, bladed weapons, alarm and signal weapons 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 included as prohibited for lacking marks , numbers or punches and other motifs.
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 aim is to prevent illegal trafficking in firearms, the non-recovery of unused weapons, the non-transformation of alarm and signal weapons, in addition to those with air or compressed gas, into firearms, and even the artisanal manufacture of devices capable of firing real cartridges.
