A program aimed at getting guns off the streets may not have been as successful as St. Petersburg Police first hoped.

The program, which ran every Saturday in February, offered anyone who had a gun the chance to turn it in with no questions asked.

Official numbers of guns turned in have not been tallied, but police say they may have only netted around a dozen firearms.

Mike Puetz with St. Petersburg Police says he hoped for a ramp up of gun turn-ins on the program's last day.

"We're hoping that we are going to pick up the pace a little bit and get a lot more guns in," Puetz said.

St. Petersburg Police Department's program came on the heels of a successful gun buy back program in Hillsborough County.

Hundreds of guns flooded into the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. They offered cash and sporting event tickets in exchange for guns, and that may have impacted the St. Petersburg program.

Puetz says St. Petersburg's February gun program did have a successful launch earlier this month. That's when detectives say they confisicated numerous weapons from high crime areas.

"A number of guns that began the soft opening of the program that we had taken from drug dealers from other forms of other criminal offenses," Puetz said.

St. Petersburg Police says despite the gun program ending, anyone with firearms that no longer wants them can turn them in anonymously at Police Headquarters downtown.