Dear Sir:
Regarding your story in the July 10, 2013 of The Terrace Standard on the RCMP gun amnesty.
As a firearm collector, I was amazed to see both black powder guns with trigger locks on them.
The flintlock needs priming powder for the flash pan and a flintstone to ignite it. Then into the barrel goes more black powder the lead ball-wadding pushed down – with a ramrod. Hardly the type of gun for a hold up.
The replacement value for both antiques could easily exceed $3,000 – unless they're replicas. Gun museums would have gladly have accepted them.
Fire arms were not always used in wars ect. but for survival and it's the person that pulls the trigger who should be blamed.
Peter Weissner, Terrace, B.C.