MORE than 60 guns have been handed in to police during the first four days of a firearms amnesty.

GMP helped launched the fortnight-long regional 'Give Us The Gun' campaign on Monday alongside Lancashire Constabulary, Merseyside Police and Cumbria Constabulary.

Assistant Chief Constable John O'Hare encouraged friends and family of criminals, perhaps those who had been asked to look after a firearm, to relinquish the deadly tools without fear of prosecution for possession of a firearm.

Officers also appealed to people with unwanted family heirlooms, war trophies and imitation guns to follow suit and take the items properly bagged and wrapped to any police station in Greater Manchester with an open public counter.

The force announced 53 handguns, five shotguns, seven rifles and three other guns including an imitation AK-47 assault rifle have been surrendered so far.

Lancashire Constabulary revealed on Twitter it had received five shotguns, three handguns, nine pistols, seven air rifles, two BB guns and 235 rounds of ammunition.