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author:: Vox
full title:: Do “Gun Buybacks” Work?
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- un reform in Australiahad overwhelming public support (View Highlight)
- tralia experienced 14 mass shootings,but in the 18 years since Port Arthur there were none.But that was also probablya result of Australia’s broader gun reforms (View Highlight)
- More than 26,000 weapons,1.3 million rounds of ammunitionand 6000 explosives were surrendered (View Highlight)
- “Are you going to surrender your arms?” (View Highlight)
- econd, Australia’s weapon amnesty program was national, (View Highlight)
- government paidfair prices for every item surrendered.Businesses impacted even got government assistanc (View Highlight)
- The amnesty was anonymous, with no consequen (View Highlight)
- also mandatory,with serious penalties for noncompliance. (View Highlight)
- collected,they had to be destroyed.That typically meant crushed and then melt (View Highlight)
- Australia’s 1996 buyback removedmore than 640,000 guns from circulation.By some estimates,that was about 20% of all weapons in Austral (View Highlight)