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Posted on 11/29/2019 4:25:42 AM PST by marktwain
The Australian states and territories have agreed to make a continuous, ongoing amnesty for people to turn in and register guns that have previously not been registered. The continuous amnesty is expected to start in the second half of 2020. From pressreader.com:
Gun owners will be able to hand in their weapons, no questions asked, from next year, when Australia launches a national continuous gun amnesty.
All states and territories agreed to the first-ever continuous amnesty yesterday at a meeting of police and emergency services ministers in Adelaide.
Details of how the amnesty would proceed are still to be worked out. Previous amnesties have differed significantly.
One point for negotiation will be if firearms can be turned into gun shops, and the gun shops allowed to register the guns and pay the people who turned the unregistered gun in.
This helps to ensure the valuable property is not destroyed for no good reason. Another advantage of this system is the government does not have to pay for turned-in firearms. A continuous amnesty has been in place in some Australian states for a number of years.
When I observed the last nationwide amnesty, conducted in 2017, many Australians I talked to mentioned the potential of a permanent amnesty, because it offered so many advantages.
They only people opposed seemed to be the dogmatic hoplophobes. They wanted a system the made all guns into prohibited contraband, only grudgingly allowed for specific purposes for short periods of time.
That system was essentially put in place with the draconian gun laws passed in 1997, under Prime Minister Howard, who hated guns with an unreasonable passion.
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The United States could learn from this and declare a gun amnesty for class three firearms (machine guns, short barreled rifles and shotguns, and silencers) and allow unregistered items to be registered at any time.
Currently, unregistered machine guns may not be legally registered.
I fully agree with your comments Mark Twain.
After all, turning in those dangerous guns is for the greater good and for the children. This is all for the betterment of America, to bring us on line with common sense places like Australia, Europe. We know that registering and turning in our guns will make us safer and more secure.
After all, we do have many historical precedences where this all worked out pretty good, such as Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Mao’s China and several more shining examples.
So yes, you are giving great advice.
It’s a trap
From my cold dead gunpowdered hands.
Yes it is. Your name will be forever in a data base and your house will be the first searched.
LOL!
Oh Boy,
This is gonna be
A Hot Post!
Do you love registering things Mark? Does it make you feel safe and secure knowing that you and all of your things are registered and licensed?Do you believe that the unregistered are bad scary people because you just don’t know what they are thinking? Why should I register anything just to appease your paranoia?
As soon as everyone wakes-up from all the Holiday food and drink, this thread will zzzzzzoooooooommmm!
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Think second order effects.
No new machine guns have been allowed to be registered by ordinary citizens, in the United States, since 1986.
If there was an amnesty, the number of legal machine guns would likely double, if not quadruple.
The more legal machine guns, the better for Second Amendment supporter to show how stupid the NFA rules are.
And as an aside, you no longer have the right to keep and bear arms. If you have to ask for and receive the government's permission to do something it isn't a right. It's a privilege. You don't need permission to exercise a right. And with the Brady law you need permission from the government to buy firearms.
While I normally think Marktwain does a great job, I can't agree with him on the registration being something we need. What we need is REPEAL of gun control going back to 1934.
Register them so they’ll know where to come looking for them.
The plan or the post?
For all but street gangs; they’re not required to turn in theirs.
The day will come when they will wish they had all those guns back, even if they are only semi-auto.
Britain, which started confiscating guns in the 1920s, found themselves unarmed, and after Dunkirk, with the Nazis at the door and had to go crawling to the US public to “SEND A GUN TO DEFEND A BRITISH HOME!”
Wait till the Chinese hordes cast their wicked eyes on Australia and New Zealand.
Loud and clear
Those countries are on borrowed time, they only exist because of the US Navy.
Insightful.
Then the British promptly collected all those private weapons after the war and destroyed them.
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