WINNIPEG - Police in Winnipeg are offering an unusual trade: cameras for guns.
The force has joined with a local camera business to offer a digital point-and-shoot camera and store gift card, together worth about $240, for every working gun turned in by citizens.
For non-working or replica firearms, owners get a $75 gift card.
As with previous gun amnesty programs, people who turn in guns will not be charged with possession and storage offences under The Firearms Act.
However, police say all firearms will be investigated for links to criminal offences.
Police are also reminding people not to walk into the camera shop or police station with their guns, but to call police so officers can pick the weapons up at their homes.
