Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:27:03 +0200Czechs hand in 6,300 unlicensed weapons in gun amnestyhttps://english.radio.cz/czechs-hand-6300-unlicensed-weapons-gun-amnesty-8582377© 2026 Radio Prague International The peaceable Czechs don’t seem like a nation of trigger-happy gun-lovers, but there are actually 650,000 registered gun-owners in this country, and perhaps as many as another half a million who own weapons illegally - that’s a lot for a nation of 10 million people. Police say that more than 6,000 unlicensed guns have so far been handed in in an amnesty that comes to an end at midnight on Friday. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/ceska_zbrojovka_cz97_800.jpg?timestamp=1591476524 Czechs hand in 6,300 unlicensed weapons in gun amnesty https://english.radio.cz/czechs-hand-6300-unlicensed-weapons-gun-amnesty-8582377 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9