Hillary Clinton, gun buybacks and a win for the NRA

Chicago Tribune ^ | 24 oct 2015 | Steve Chapman

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Barack Obama promised he wouldn't take away anyone's guns, but gun-rights alarmists have spent seven years incessantly predicting he would. From his experience, Hillary Rodham Clinton seems to have decided to skip the part of the campaign that involves placating the National Rifle Association.

Recently, at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, she was asked about adopting a federal gun control program like the one enacted in Australia in 1996, which banned automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns and mandated the buyback of those already present. Some 650,000 guns were taken from citizens and destroyed.

Clinton replied, "I do not know enough details to tell you how we would do it, or how it would work, but certainly the Australian example is worth looking at." The reason, she said, is that "by offering to buy back those guns, they were able to curtail the supply and to set a different standard for gun purchases in the future."

At this, the NRA activated the air raid sirens. Obama and Clinton, it declared, have "made clear what they're really after — national gun confiscation."

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—thanks—I had got by it , too-—