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EL34x4

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24. Australians buried a lot of guns in their back yards, that's what they did.

Reply to bixente (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 21, 2015, 11:40 AM

Jun 2015

...the Attorney-General's Department itself estimated that 3.35 million firearms would become prohibited...

...As so much of the necessary data is unavailable, it is impossible to conclude that the "buyback" achieved anything other than the collection of 640,381 firearms (mostly .22 cal rimfire semi-auto rifles and pump-action shotguns) at a huge and unwarranted cost.

ABS firearm import statistics for 1996-97 indicate that 125,594 of these firearms have been replaced already.

In the final analysis, the success or otherwise of the confiscations can only be measured by crime reduction...

http://www.ssaa.org.au/research/1997/1997-12_the-great-australian-gun-buyback.html

People often tout Australia's gun buyback as a success while conveniently ignoring that compliance was dismal.

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