[rktman]

Surely the bad guys are lining up to turn in their illegal firearms so they won't be classified as crimina......... Oh. And about the "buy-back". Uh, how can you buy back something that was never yours in the first place. Oh, cause it "sounds" good. I musta forgot. Sounds like a plan helldabama would love to implement.

[stars & stripes forever]

[but illegal firearms do remain a deadly weapon of choice for organized criminals]

ENOUGH SAID.

[mrmeyer]

Don't do it Aussies.

[KC_Lion]

Ping!

[TomGuy]

I am sure the organized criminals and general thugs will rush to turn their guns under this amnesty.

[/s]

Are the Aussie officials that stupid??????

Many of OUR politicians are, as they say essentially the same thing. Even Clinton was using that line at the last debate — new laws to keep the guns out of the hands of criminals.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Well, Australia was settled by prisoners, after all.

[bgill]

So sayeth the overlords.

[GregoTX]

Illegal gun is a term that only applies to private ownership. If the government says you do do not have the freedom to own a particular gun, it is an illegal gun. If the government owns that same gun, suddenly it isn’t an illegal gun anymore... Just a gun.

[Mr. K]

OK Criminals- bring in your guns!

[headstamp 2]

“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. “

Which precisely why this is basically pissing in the wind to feel better about themselves.

[tumblindice]

They can try the same thing here, but we would ignore it.
Americans would refuse `forgiveness’ from DC Overlords.

2nd amendment—A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

ex post facto law: a law that makes illegal an act that was legal when committed, increases the penalties for an infraction after it has been committed, or changes the rules of evidence to make conviction easier. The Constitution prohibits the making of ex post facto law.

[smokingfrog]

IOW a 20 year old law doesn’t work

[Sasparilla]

...Queensland has had two gun amnesties since 1996. It seems that thousands of guns have been smuggled in from overseas or have been stolen from legal owners in burglaries and armed robberys and gun assaults have been on the increase.
They come in every way possible on boats and airplanes.

[Daniel Ramsey]

Oz should do as Sweden does for their own good, by NOT doing such a manner may very well allow fiction to become reality.

Australia becomes the land portrayed in the Mad Max films.

[longfellow]

They should all show up with their guns,slaughter this nazi government and start over.

[A Navy Vet]

I'm sure the replies before this already say...STUPID IDEA THAT NEVER WORKS. Aussies, don't give up your weapons unless they're inoperable that can put some money in your pocket while you hold onto your viable guns.

You Aussies were once an impressive Ally in the fight in WWII. Please don't metro out.

[Cobra64]

The first sentence makes no logical sense unless we assume those turning in their guns are causing crime.

(See my tagline.)

[sargon]

Didn't Australia start out as a penal colony?

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!

[Psalm 144]

It’s a trap. If you kept them out of the hands of your police state so far, you can keep on doing it.

[null and void]

Amnesty? Sound more like confiscation.

[Secret Agent Man]

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.