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Firearm Buy back quotations These quotes were found on Sports Shooting
Association of Australia, http://www.ssaa.org.au "John, it's not working, it's not working
- it's as people always suspected that the good people would obey the rules and
the bad guys would just continue on as always." "It may be politically expedient or
socially palatable to ban [military-style weapons], yet such measures are
destined to have little effect when reducing the incidence of firearm-related
crime and injury." "The continuation of buyback programs is a
triumph of wishful thinking over all the available evidence," said Garen
Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the
University of California at Davis At a U.S. National
Institute of Justice lecture delivered just weeks before Clinton's grant
announcement, University of Pennsylvania professor Lawrence Sherman, who headed
a wide-ranging assessment of crime prevention programs, called gun buybacks
"the program that is best-known to be ineffective" in reducing
firearms violence. A Harvard University study of buyback programs
in Boston in 1993 and 1994 found that nearly three-quarters of the guns
recovered were made before 1968. In Seattle, one-quarter of the guns collected
were inoperable. Even though pistols were banned under the
Dunblane regulations, they are still the weapon of choice for armed criminals
and were used in 1,854 of the 3,029 armed robberies in England and Wales in
1997. "It is clear that the bans introduced in
the Firearms (Amendment) Act in respect of handguns have not worked, in that for
the first six months of 1999, 59 handguns have been used in West
Yorkshire." "You know, prohibition never works, but
control does" - Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks. "Gun buybacks or exchanges do not reduce
violent crime rates." "Gun buyback programmes were not effective
if they saw guns as assets." "In a surprise triumph for the gun lobby,
nor do gun buyback programs seem to prevent crime." "A total of $500 million was spent on the
semi-automatic gun buyback when the massacres this was designed to prevent claim
fewer than 10 victims a year, on average." "Under the National agreement,
compensation is a matter for State and Territories. This has not changed. The
onus is on Victoria to finalise any outstanding compensation payments and then
to seek reimbursement from the Commonwealth." "Has the gun buyback
scheme been a success?" "The simple answer
to your question is that the first part of your question has nothing to do with
the second part of your question." "The firearms
buyback scheme was an equity measure to compensate people who needed to
surrender firearms as a result of the changed firearm laws." "Taxpayers were
slugged hundreds of thousands of dollars so the Federal Government could buyback
guns it already owned." Dr Christopher Walker told the Australasian
College for Emergency Medicine conference at the Adelaide Festival Centre that
gun law reform undertaken in 1996 in response to the Port Arthur massacre was a
government fraud. "It has been one of the greatest frauds perpetrated
against the Australian taxpayer," Dr Walker said. The Advertiser
13/11/97 Adelaide "..it was all
about draining the suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney of firearms." "the new legislation banning
semi-automatic firearms will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of
Australia's gun deaths" - The Australian Institute of Criminology's Dr Adam
Graycar "It is clear that the gun buyback scheme
is out of control." "There's people who
have an axe to grind and I suspect a lot of males in the gun trade and older
police officers who don't like seeing a young woman making a success of the
scheme." "What you have here
is a moveable feast of looting, rorting, bungling and deceit." "We are crushing the
guns on a hydraulic press out the back but they are allowed to watch it being
destroyed from a viewing area." "This is a defining
moment in Australian history and one which firearm owners, their families and
the community can be very proud." Mr O'Connor received
$3,950 compensation for three banned firearms - which he topped up to buy three
under-and-over shotguns for $7,000. "Under the terms of the current amnesty on
illegal firearms, nobody will be prosecuted for handing in unregistered
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