France Makes Push to Collect Heirloom Weapons Across Country

People wait to bring back their weapons to the Ustaritz gendarmerie, southwestern France, Thursday, Dec.1, 2022. France has launched a nationwide push to collect millions of old firearms; remnants of the two World Wars or long-abandoned hunting habits. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

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By Associated Press

December 1, 2022 at 11:45 AM UTC

Updated on

December 1, 2022 at 2:34 PM UTC

Brunoy, France (AP) -- The pistol the elderly French woman inherited from her grandfather had once belonged to a German soldier, killed in a war fought on France's soil in the last century.

Now the woman has turned the heirloom over to police for fear that her grandchildren would stumble upon it.