Sentence examples for surrendered guns from inspiring English sources

"Most people here are looking at their neighbors before they do something," said Alain Lapon, who works for the United Nations program and cited the success of six similar amnesties in Croatia, which he said had yielded 36,000 surrendered guns since the war ended there in 1995.

Some law enforcement agencies destroy surrendered guns, but many instead auction them or pawn them to licensed dealers, which then resell them.

There was also an appeal to voluntarily surrender guns.

But in many cases, such laws don't explicitly require these people to surrender guns they already own.

He understands the concerns about assault rifles and agrees there is a problem with mass shootings, but he doesn't feel like the government should have the right to make him surrender guns he owns legally.

Both groups have surrendered some guns in exchange for generous compensation.

The RUF's leader, Foday Sankoh, is in jail, and most rebels have surrendered their guns.

"We had a number of people that surrendered their guns to be sent home".

After the fighting, parts of the army is said to have surrendered their guns and sought shelter in the international base.

"There is a saying that whoever enters the house of God is safe," said Reema Juha, 44, "but they should have surrendered their guns".

The remaining 80,000 are now officially civilians but, in practice, they still take orders from UNITA functionaries, and have an unknown quantity of weapons stashed away.They are supposed to have surrendered their guns to the government, but officials will not say how many have been received.