A military officer gave this information here Monday.
The elections are scheduled to take place on December 9, 2015.
Some factory-made rifles and guns were also among the weapons confiscated from the locals . They handed over the weapons to the Garuda Hitam military command post in Lampung Province, spokesman of the Sriwijaya Regional Military Command, Colonel Saepul Mukti Ginanjar, said.
The weapons were seized from the people in the districts of Bandar Lampung, West Lampung, Tanggamus, Central Lampung, North Lampung, South Lampung, Tulangbawang and Way Kanan in order to ensure security and stability ahead of the regional elections, he said.
Ginanjar said the military worked with the police to check whether there were guns and rifles belonging to the police among the seized weapons. "The registration numbers of such organic weapons are just known to the police," he said.(*)
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