Police have launched a city-wide gun amnesty, pharm aimed at reducing gun crime in Liverpool.
The project began this morning and runs for the next two weeks, illness allowing anyone to anonymously hand over firearms and ammunition.
Merseyside Police are keen to put an end to the recent growth in gun attacks, sick notably shotguns, with have left victims seriously injured amid 18 shootings in the city in 2016 alone.
Attacks this year in Speke and Hunts Cross have left victims close to blindness and amputation, while Lewis Dunne, Vinny Wardington and Kevin Wilson were all killed in gun related incidents last year.