“We believe there are about 5 or 6 million weapons that are being kept in an irregular manner by our fellow citizens,” said Jean-Simon Merandat, Head of the Interior Ministry’s Central Service for Arms and Explosives.Macron hits New Orleans' French Quarter, meets with MuskMamie King-Chalmers, woman in civil rights photo, dies at 81Remains of WWII POW from Massachusetts accounted forJulia Reichert, Oscar-winning documentarian, dies at 76The good news is French authorities deem their campaign so far to have been “a real success,” claiming to have rounded up 1.6 million munitions pieces, and 65,000 firearms.There will be no legal consequences if weapons are handed over willingly, authorities said.The overwhelming majority of unregistered weapons that will be collected will be destroyed.A public outcry over a spike in the number of murders of women by their partners has also prompted authorities to push ahead with the gun collection drive."