| The IDF Spokesman’s Office, which confirmed the collection efforts, explained that only military-issue guns that are not in use have been collected. No personal weapons have been confiscated, nor have emergency response teams been left unarmed. Rather, the IDF emphasized, the guns collected have come from caches that have been untouched for a significant length of time. “Let’s say they’re rusting away,” an IDF spokesman told Arutz Sheva. Accordingly, the gun collection program excluded those weapons currently issued to local security personnel and to members of emergency response teams in the Judea and Samaria region, according to the IDF. |
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