[117070] in Cypherpunks
Re: Gun buyback program big success in nation's capital
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Roach)
Thu Aug 26 00:22:40 1999
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:03:15 -0500
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From: Sean Roach <roach_s@mail.intplsrv.net>
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At 06:39 PM 8/25/99 -0400, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>
>[note: we should ask our Aussie friends for their experience
>on the topic. It comes to mind that kids will find any kind
>of crappy old rusted gun, saw-off the barrel, and make a
>quick 100 bucks, then use this money to buy some brand new
>stuff.]
Or, clean out the house of some senator and have a guaranteed buyer.
...
>People who turned in guns did not have to give police their
>names and were granted amnesty from the city's law barring
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>people from owning handguns or other illegal firearms,
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Note this for later. sr
>police spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile said.
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>But he said guns would be tested to see if they could be
>traced to crimes in the district.
>
>Funds to pay for the program are coming from money and
>assets confiscated from drug dealers.
>
>Copyright 1999 The Associated Press.
>
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>[this is a message sent by our Aussie friends from the SSAA]
>
>Note the testing of those guns surrendered...almost like
>Australian Federal Police and Army Intelligence knocking on
>the doors of those Australians who surrendered semi auto and
>full auto firearms under the "amnesty". No questions would
>be asked... they said. Any further "amnesty" would be
>treated with scorn by those who once trusted.
As much as I dislike the very idea of gun confiscation, they did say that
they were giving amnesty from the possession of the gun, not any crime
which was committed with it.
Personally, I'm suprised that Canada went to gun restrictions before the
U.S. Canada has much sparser population then the U.S. and the way I see
it, the impulse to control ones neighbors is directly proportional to the
proximity of ones neighbors.
Translation. If it's way over there, what do I care. If its close to my
land, it needs to be banned.
But, then again, I'm no sociologist or in any of the related disciplines.
Sean Roach
