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<blockquote data-quote="WideLoadTimmy" data-source="post: 2057130" data-attributes="member: 12926"><p>From what I read (I'm going back to the Wiki article about it now), Australia implemented a buyback program and "recovered" something like 600,000 firearms. They used a $500,000,000 one time increase in the medicare levy (Doesn't that mean they used citizens' money to fund the buyback?!?!) to do that. IIRC, there are something like 300,000,000+ firearms in circulation in the US right now. That's just 500x the number taken in Australia. Where the hell would the government get that kind of money? The answer is, they can't do it. There would be no buyback. They either have to "compromise" to the point of almost no change or someone is going to try unlawful seizure of citizens' guns. This looks bad.</p><p></p><p>I know Wikipedia isn't always the best resource but here's the Wiki article."</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia#Measuring_the_effects_of_firearms_laws_in_Australia" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia#Measuring_the_effects_of_firearms_laws_in_Australia</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WideLoadTimmy, post: 2057130, member: 12926"] From what I read (I'm going back to the Wiki article about it now), Australia implemented a buyback program and "recovered" something like 600,000 firearms. They used a $500,000,000 one time increase in the medicare levy (Doesn't that mean they used citizens' money to fund the buyback?!?!) to do that. IIRC, there are something like 300,000,000+ firearms in circulation in the US right now. That's just 500x the number taken in Australia. Where the hell would the government get that kind of money? The answer is, they can't do it. There would be no buyback. They either have to "compromise" to the point of almost no change or someone is going to try unlawful seizure of citizens' guns. This looks bad. I know Wikipedia isn't always the best resource but here's the Wiki article." [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia#Measuring_the_effects_of_firearms_laws_in_Australia[/url] [/QUOTE]
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