Posted on 10/22/2016 9:47:24 AM PDT by rktman
Australia will allow gun owners to hand in illegal firearms without penalty next year as concerns grow over gun crimes involving such weapons, a federal minister said Friday.
Australia's police and justice ministers agreed at a meeting to start a nationwide gun amnesty from the middle of 2017, Justice Minister Michael Keenan said.
"Australia is world-renowned for the strength of our firearm laws, but illegal firearms do remain a deadly weapon of choice for organized criminals," Keenan told reporters.
It will be the first Australia-wide amnesty since a gun buy-back program in 1996 that followed a lone gunman killing 35 people in Tasmania state, Sydney University gun policy analyst Philip Alpers said.
That tragedy galvanized the government to legislate tough restrictions on rapid-fire weapons and to buy back almost 700,000 newly outlawed guns.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics shows the nation has since imported almost 1.2 million legal guns, although none of them are military-style semi-automatic assault rifles that are now banned from public ownership.
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In America, we think "infamous" is more appropriate than "renowned".
(See my tagline.)
It looks like that's where Australian citizens are headed again. No essential rights and no ability to defend themselves from criminal or terrorist attack...
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
They Did Not Comply???
SHOCKING!
It’s a trap. If you kept them out of the hands of your police state so far, you can keep on doing it.
LOL! I should have scrolled further. You said it.
KEEP THEM YOU IDIOTS!
The muzzies are coming to get you!
We shouldn’t have to fill out a form 4473 to buy a new firearm. At one time you could walk into a hardware store, plunk down your cash and walk out with your purchase, including Thompson submachine guns.
It’s none of their damned business. The BATF is yet another alphabet agency that needs a clean sweep by the Donald.
Then on to national reciprocity and repeal of the unconstitutional 1934 and 1968 firearms acts.
A Thompson would be Too Cool ,
Alas My friend,
We are an Idiocracy.
You were ignorant enough to turn them in once.
You begged the Americans never to turn theirs in.
Now you’re being asked to turn yours in again.
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