In response to a 35-day deadline served by the Government to the public to surrender illegal firearms, Nepal Police on April 21 said it had received 429 weapons, both small and large, from across the country, reports The Himalayan Times. On March 14, the Government had set the deadline for the general public to hand over firearms, such as rifles, revolvers and ammunition they possessed illegally, ‘to maintain law and order’. The announcement was made two days after it banned all activities of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist-Chand) and labelled it a ‘terrorist outfit’.