Hi! Tony,

In a message to Robert Bashe you wrote:

 RB>> OK, I thopught I had read that the guns were actually
 RB>> purchased, but maybe that was in another country.

 TL> I'm not aware of any purchasing in Australia, but you can
 TL> hand in guns for destruction, no questions asked.

Apart from other programs in some USofA cities, Bob is probably thinking of the
'96 buyback.  What a lot of Aussies don't realize is that the buyback cost
approx AUD$500,000,000 and achieved nothing.  There are more firearms in
circulation today than then; just different types since the unified state-based
haphazard registration systems.

Cheers,
Paul.

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