Merseyside police said 22 viable firearms and over 2,000 rounds of live ammunition were handed in during a surrender operation.
The number handed in this year exceeds the 122 surrender of guns and ammo during the last campaign in November 2017.
The hand-ins included:
- 22 viable guns,
- 36 air weapons.
- 9 blank firing weapons including an Olympic .38
- 19 imitation and de-activated items
- 17 lots of ammo – including at least 2,000 viable rounds, mainly .22 and 12 gauge.
- 23 miscellaneous items including crossbows, pellets, blanks, an ornamental shell from a Harrier Jump jet; toy guns and home load ammo accessories
Many of the guns will now be destroyed, so that they never end up on the streets again.
Det Supt Richie Salter said: "We know that firearms – whether real, deactivated, air weapons or imitations, have the potential to fall into the wrong hands and be used to cause fear or intimidation.
"We have a commitment to our communities to protect them from criminals and criminal behaviour and by getting rid of weapons such as this helps us to fulfil that commitment but is not the only thing we are doing.
"Every single day our officers are doing proactive work to remove guns and other potentially lethal weapons from our streets as part of our ongoing pledge to tackle serious and violent crime, disrupt criminal activity and put those making other people’s lives a misery behind bars.
"I would like to thank members of the public who supported this surrender and handed in their unwanted or unused weapons for safe disposal.
"I would also continue to ask people that if they know where weapons are being stored or who is using them to let us know so that we can take action."
Anyone with information about who is using or storing weapons in their area is asked to DM @MerPolCC, call 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
