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Australia's first national firearms amnesty since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre has seen over 57,000 automatic rifles, handguns, and even a rocket launcher handed in to authorities.
Another governmental shockwave that changed Australia's gun ownership climate was a wide-scale firearm buyback, paying the country's residents reasonable sums for more than one million firearms of all size, shape, and make.
Running from July 1 to September 30 past year, nearly 2,500 of them were fully-automatic and semi-automatic.
"This is another step in the process of making sure that we keep firearms out of the hands of criminals and gangs, and we keep Australians safe and secure, " he added.
"It was a very, very good result, " Law Enforcement Minister Angus Taylor said. In his study published in 2016, "Public Mass Shooters and Firearms: A Cross-National Study of 171 Countries", University of Alabama's Adam Lankford, an associate professor of criminology, found a link between the number of guns and mass shootings that killed four or more people.
The final results, released today, show 57,324 firearms were handed in between July and September across Australia to be registered or destroyed. I think it exceeded everybody's expectations.
The review that followed led to the gun amnesty with the states and Commonwealth agreeing to share the cost.
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Alpers said the surrender now of semi-automatic and automatic weapons that had been hidden in 1996 when they were banned suggested Australia's mindset on guns was shifting and that controls had gained popularity over two decades.
To prevent massacres, amnesties tend to work only if deployed in tandem with the European-style measures deeply loathed by American conservatives: broad bans or restrictions on firearms ownership.
The rocket launcher was handed in to a licensed firearms dealer in Queensland, who believes it was once recovered at a local tip.
"It's critical to get them off this grey market ... so they don't end up in the black market", he said.
Authorities have cited the example of Man Haron Monis, the perpetrator of a Sydney cafe siege in 2014, who used an unregistered shotgun.
The gunman and two hostages were killed in a shootout with police. Rather than keeping them on the street for future issues to rise up in the face of what governmental policy has been proven to offer to Australian well-being, the govenrment felt such a solicitation of firearms was necessary for safety.
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