It would have to be structured as a voluntary turn-in with a benefit that people would be crazy not to take advantage of (e.g. some gigantic tax relief).
Yeah, don't try or even think about it, not worth the risk...
But serious, why not start a voluntary buy-back program and see if gun owners respond to that. Or how about a law that makes it mandatory to offer the gun/ammo to the government when a private owner wants to sell? Private sales are a huge problem: no background checks. Stopping them while still giving owners a chance to sell could do some good.
> Now, Australia's homicide rate was already declining before the NFA was implemented, so you can't attribute all of the drops to the new laws.
> Pinning down exactly how much the NFA contributed is harder. One study concluded that buying back 3,500 guns per 100,000 people correlated with up to a 50 percent drop in firearm homicides. But as my colleague Dylan Matthews points out, the results were not statistically significant because Australia has a pretty low number of murders already.
> imiting access to guns makes each attempt more likely to fail, thus making it more likely that people will survive and not attempt to harm themselves again.
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[ 6.2 ms ] story [ 34.0 ms ] threadBut serious, why not start a voluntary buy-back program and see if gun owners respond to that. Or how about a law that makes it mandatory to offer the gun/ammo to the government when a private owner wants to sell? Private sales are a huge problem: no background checks. Stopping them while still giving owners a chance to sell could do some good.
> Pinning down exactly how much the NFA contributed is harder. One study concluded that buying back 3,500 guns per 100,000 people correlated with up to a 50 percent drop in firearm homicides. But as my colleague Dylan Matthews points out, the results were not statistically significant because Australia has a pretty low number of murders already.
(I can cherry-pick too)
The headline should've been: "Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Suicides and maybe homicides dropped."