How many guns and knives have you seen at once? These illegal weapons confiscated in Kunming look like a small mountain.
Kunming police destroyed all the illegal firearms collected so far this year on Nov. 28, Sohu News reported.
According to police records, there’ve been 278 firearm and 59 explosive-related cases in Kunming since February.
In total, they confiscated:
- 838 firearms
- 49,292 military bullets
- 94 shells
- 31 hand grenades
- 28,792 pounds of explosives
- 46,374 detonators
- 25 miles of fuses
- 32,329 restrained knives
- 21,221 replica guns
- 1,984 pounds of highly toxic chemicals
All the metal is melted down and recycled, as well as the plastic, which is crushed and recycled.
If this is just from Kunming, how many illegal weapons are there in the rest of China… and what are people planning to do with them?