Family hands in late father's weapon stash

A 75-year-old woman and her two sons arrived at a Tel Aviv police station today and handed in a stash of weapons that the family’s father had amassed over the years, police say.

The man who passed away recently had been a lieutenant colonel in the IDF had apparently enjoyed collecting souvenirs from his participation in various wars.

Among the weapons and ammunition handed in were a sniper’s rifle from 1890, two Kalashnikov rifles, two drum pistols, 5 pistols and dozens of boxes of ammunition, police say.

The family wants the guns donated to the artillery corps museum.

The collector apparently phoned his son just before his death and told him of the weapons hidden in a cache in his apartment.

— Raoul Wootliff