Australian Government Says It Wants To Confiscate Weapons From Peaceable Citizens
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 5 months ago
Australia has announced a sweeping national firearm amnesty that will allow owners of illegal firearms to hand in weapons for the first time since the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in 1996.
The amnesty was one of the measures agreed as part of the revised 2017 National Firearms Agreement by the state and territory governments.
The amnesty has been precipitated by a steady increase in the number of unregistered firearms in Australia, which law enforcement and intelligence agencies now believe to number approximately 260,000.
“My expectation is it will probably not be the case that we will have hardened criminals who have made a big effort to get a hold on illegal guns would necessarily hand them in. The purpose is to reduce the number of unregistered and illicit firearms in the community”.
He couldn’t have been clearer. He doesn’t expect that criminals or terrorists will hand in weapons. Only peaceable citizens will turn them in, making them less able to defend themselves.
The security situation in Australia is degrading with an increase in both gangs and the potential for Islamic terror, and yet there are still those in America and around the world who embrace the false Australia gun narrative.
On June 16, 2017 at 8:14 am, Fred said:
This is almost comical. They pass registration and confiscation laws and now have MORE unregistered and unconfiscated guns? Imagine my shock and dismay to learn, after all these years, that prohibition doesn’t work. Shocking!
So it was agreed by the federal and state governments that this should be the law? Well how very nice for those governments. Did anybody bother to ask the people? Because, and I hope Australians will read this, government is a fiction created by men, changed by men, and DESTROYED by men all at their own convenience. Dirty shame if the blokes down under decided that they didn’t like the direction that this was headed.
And we know that 260k probably means 500k. That ain’t just criminals and gangs with them. I’m so very proud of the Australian people. When guns are outlawed we become outlaws!
Please LORD, I pray that the Australia governments get ZERO participation during the turn in.
On June 16, 2017 at 8:50 am, Col. Douglas Mortimer said:
“We are from the gubmint and are here to help you”. Or not….
On June 16, 2017 at 12:21 pm, Archer said:
They estimate 260,000 unregistered guns. I’d be surprised if the amnesty turn-in period nets them more than 30,000. I’m thinking about 10% of the estimated total, if that.
@Fred: This is almost comical. They pass registration and confiscation laws and now have MORE unregistered and unconfiscated guns? Imagine my shock and dismay to learn, after all these years, that prohibition doesn’t work. Shocking!
Yes, and Australia is its own f@#$ing ISLAND! It’s not like they have open borders with other nations! You’d think if ANYONE could “seal the border” and keep illegal guns out, it’d be the Aussies (or the Brits, who also have their own island).
But they can’t. The number of undocumented guns keeps growing, even on their island. Which means importation bans in any nation that shares a border with other nations — like America — CANNOT work.
On June 16, 2017 at 2:16 pm, moe mensale said:
How do they know that the number of unregistered guns is increasing if they’re, ummmmm, unregistered?
On June 17, 2017 at 10:08 am, RVN11B said:
Just the question I was wanting to ask. You beat me to it! :D
On June 17, 2017 at 10:23 am, Ned said:
So Australia is becoming the weapons free Utopia embraced by the left. Why do they all talk of moving to Canada?
On June 19, 2017 at 3:49 pm, CarpetBagger said:
Keenan was more surreptitious than clear. Parse his words; Keenan is actually declaring that ANY person who has a gun is a “hardened criminal”:
“We have hardened criminals … who have guns.”
Q1. What do you call gubmint that calls all Free People “hardened criminals”?
Q2. How does gubmint treat “hardened criminals”?