Gold-coloured gun, swords found in Waterloo weapons roundup

A gold-coloured gun and a number of swords are among the latest weapons collected by officers with the Waterloo Regional Police Service, as the force continues its month-long weapons amnesty in November.

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Police have collected 75 firearms, 3,453 rounds of ammunition, 19 pellet guns and 10 prohibited weapons that have included everything from swordsto ninja stars to bear spray in the first 13 days of the month-long program.

Many of the weapons turned in have also been replicas, according to police spokesman Olaf Heinzel, which police are as eager to get off the streets as the real thing.

"Right, anything that looks real, if people want to turn them in we'd like to get them out of circulation," he said. "We've had crimes that have been committed that have involved replica weapons."

Heinzelsaidofficers consider the first two weeks of the November weapons amnesty a success.

"Basically this is the first 13 days that you've seen," he said. "We would like to get as many weapons out of the community and sent for destruction as possible."

Heinzel said details on the individual weapons collected by police over the 30 days of the amnesty would be available once the program has finished at the end of November.